ECR with user(submitter) selected team.

[pyalavarthi]

All,

We have a requirement to create an ECR with user selected team while
creating it. I am planning to create an IBA for ECR which will have all the
available team names. Based on this attribute I want to assign the team to
the workflow process using a expressiong robot in the beginning of the
workflow. With this solution I have to update the IBA attribute value
everytime I have to add a new team selection .
I am wondering if anyone ran into similar requirement and if there are
any other solutions available.

Thanks,
Prathap

[sauls]

Prathap,

I suggest to generate an aassignament task as the first workflow assignment
where the submitter can choose much easily.

Regards
Saul

[ddemay]

Assuming 9.1...Are you adding team names as a iba constraint so you have a list to pick from? If so add a formprocessordelegate via actions xml or in jsp code to intercept pre persisted ECR in command bean and use it to update team of ecr which will be used as context team in workflow. You'll get form data to get selected team name and query for particpants and copy them onto ECR. Formprocessordelegates are discussed in latest customizer's guide.

Dave DeMay



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[MikeLockwood]

This is exactly what we do.

Note to all: The OTB UI's for selecting users to assign to Roles don't scale well - like many things in Windchill. For Define Participants tab in the Promotion Wizard, and for the Setup Participants workflow assignment, the user is presented with a column for each Role and a row for each User, and checkboxes. For a few of each this works well. For one type of thing we have > 20 Roles. The selecting user can't tell which check box goes with which user in this case.

In this case you have to go to one of the following (we're interested in how others approach this:
- Have users edit the team instance directly (requires Modify for the Team object; allows editing all/at all times)
- Use the Java Applet team editor on a workflow assignment (works but a bit slow)
- Provide drop-down lists of all users for each Role (we're currently using this).

The process of selecting users to fill Roles is a key one; lots of tools from PTC but none are really elegant and usable yet it seems.

[pyalavarthi]

Thanks for your inputs David, Mike and Saul. I will look into these options
and see which one will fit best for us.

Thanks,
Prathap