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PreetiGupta15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
September 27, 2010
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Workflow Task

  • September 27, 2010
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Hi,

This should be such a common use case where same person is needed to approve in multiple roles. Right now Windchill sends unique assignments per role. If the person is required to approve in three different roles then he has to approve three individual assignments.

Is there a way we can somehow manipulate Windchill so that it only delivers one assignment for above scenario?

Thanks,
Preeti

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    AL_ANDERSON12-Amethyst
    12-Amethyst
    September 27, 2010
    You could write a workflow expression robot just prior to the task that
    evaluates all participants for the roles in the workflow, and then strips
    out duplicates. You would need to pick which priority of roles get left as
    the one-role.

    If you needed to remember that that one role is also playing two other
    roles, then you could add that information to a variable that you can tack
    on to that person's comments on a task complete transition in the task.

    Unfortunately, I can think of no way to make the system give one single
    task that essentially represents some N number of tasks, and that posts
    the results and comments from that one task back out to each of those same
    N tasks on task compelte.

    Al Anderson






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    Hi,

    This should be such a common use case where same person is needed to
    approve in multiple roles. Right now Windchill sends unique assignments
    per role. If the person is required to approve in three different roles
    then he has to approve three individual assignments.

    Is there a way we can somehow manipulate Windchill so that it only
    delivers one assignment for above scenario?

    Thanks,
    Preeti


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    avillanueva23-Emerald I
    23-Emerald I
    September 27, 2010
    Since role is a field on the WorkItem, I do not think the assignment or
    notification can be limited to one without loosing the information about
    the other roles. I was think in my case it would be helpful when the
    user signs for one, to have it complete the others as well. It does not
    reduce the emails or assignments in the list but leaves open the
    possibility to have they sign uniquely. A checkbox would trigger it to
    complete the other WorkItems while approving the current one they are
    on.


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    RussPratt8-Gravel
    8-Gravel
    September 28, 2010

    While I realize the technical "how to" nature of this question, it seriously begs a much more fundamental question, "Has the core business process been evaluated for efficiency and effectivity?" There is something fundamentally flawed in a process that requires multiple role approvals, but then allows the same individual to perform them.

    Russ

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