Dynamic Work item text how-to

[Rick Sample]

That was my next line of thinking. 
 
But for now, I think I can get by with a few containers for the dynamic text strings,  
be done with it, (and hit my dead lines) and go home. I didn't want to overly complicate the issue. 
I am still poking SAP / WF with a stick to see what I can and can not do out of the box. 
I need to keep maintenance coding in mind for new additions to our Work Flow Paradise and 
keep it as standard as possible. 
 
faffing? Must be a Brit?
faffing: To "faff" is something like to occupy yourself doing little meaningless things. Lots of useless details 
to keep my mind from going south. Like looking up faffing.
 
Have a great day Phil and Thanks!
 
>>> phil.soady at sap.com 7.30.2003 2:56:41 PM >>>
Hi Rick,
since it not easy faffing around with text strings in the container or SAPScript,
why not just create a new task, with a new method of your own.
 
Writing a piece to of code t
to accept say 10 inputs
Source String
Fields 1, thru Field 9.
Then replace &1 in the source string with field 1 , &2 with field 2 etc.
Then do a condense to clean it up if necessary.
 
20 lines of code and re-usable in all your workflows.
 
as an idea...
 
Phil Soady
Senior Consultant
Business Technologies
SAP Australia
* : 0412 213 079
* : phil.soady at sap.com 
 
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Sample [mailto:Rick.Sample at gbe.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:21 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU 
Subject: Dynamic Work item text how-to
 
 
I am using SELFITEM.SENDTASKDESCRIPTION tasks which send messages to users
on an approval process. I have too many nearly identical messages. Any time I want to
change a simple line or two I have to go into half a dozen tasks and make the same change.
 
I know how to conditional coding in the Description but now I would like to have the
Work Item Text a tad more generic. I can create a container and put it into the Work Item Text
and pass it in the binding like so.
For field "Work Item Text" in the Task ->Basic Data I entered &zWorkItemText& &zWorkItemText& = "myMessage - Approved message for Mr Smith" I can pass text into this field via the container but not other containers like so. For field "Work Item Text" in the Task ->Basic Data I entered &zWorkItemText& &zWorkItemText& = "myMessage - Approved message for &zEname&" Result of this is the display of: "myMessage - Approved message for &zEname&" and not
"myMessage - Approved message for Mr Smith"
 
Any way to concatenate the containers in the string so I can get the containers and the text? I could create multiple containers and put into Work Item Text like &zWorkItemText1&, &zWorkItemText2&,
&zWorkItemText3&, ... But would rather not.
 
thanks!