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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>At times, you may want to route a workflow item to an agent and return
more than a simple user choice or a structure of values. In some cases we
want to obtain a *table* of values. <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Is
there a standard or best practice way for doing that?</span></b> ( I
tried using a ‘form’ with a multi-line container element, but that
did not work. Nor was I able to reference ‘table types’
established in the workflow container. ) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In particular, we would like to route the notification of a blocked
invoice to the inbox of an agent, provide that agent with a description of the
condition, and obtain from that agent a decision and some number of values in a
table of structured data. <a
href="http://www.duke.edu/~michaelm/images/wfdialog.jpg" target="_newWindow">Here's
a link to a screen mock-up (user inputs in yellow).</a> Are there any
objects set up to do this type of activity? Additionally, this particular
workflow could pass back and forth between the requestor and our procurement
department multiple times - we’d like a way to add comments, and to
display previous comments... <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Again, are there
any building blocks already set up to do this?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Our working idea is…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Adding a Method to
Our Main Business Object<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Invoking that method
from a task<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Having that call
bring up a screen filled with enough containers to house the variety of
CL_GUI_ (textedit,grid) objects we need<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Implementing the
logging as a formatted text string, appending new info as needed<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m looking for best practices and standardization techniques,
and I welcome the community’s response.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>…Mike McInerney <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size=3
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<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>(919)684-5371<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>We are at ECC 6.0 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Duke</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
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<st1:City w:st="on">Durham</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NC</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">27701</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><br>
(919)684-5371
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