Different text for inbox and log?

[Zmudzin,Tomasz,VEVEY,GL-IS/IT]

Michael,
 
there's a trick which will not always be applicable - and sometimes it's
plain annoying, but this may help you.
 
Please pass the text as a virtual attribute of your business object. Make it
depend on whether the object was processed or not. When processing the task,
the attribute will be evaluated and provide the users with TEXT1. But --
when checking the logs of workflow the attribute will be evaluated again (!)
passing the other TEXT2 to the work item display.
 
This may potentially work for you, but will be definitely annoying if you
define e.g. the object status as a virtual attribute -- in all workflow
steps it will show up the CURRENT status!
 
Tomasz.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
Sent: Thursday,13. March 2003 16:19
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Different text for inbox and log?
 
 
Hi all,
Is it possible to have different texts appearing in the log and the
workitem display?
This has bothered me (and others I'm sure) on one or 2 occasions in the
past, but I now have a particularly annoying exapmle to work with:
 
Same step, executed by various people in sequence, same text. The log
naturally shows "Check TLA 1234, CC999 from Joe Bloggs" many times over
(28 to be precise). Now the text is relevant for the person's inbox, but
for the log I'd want to see the step name as defined in the WF template
- i.e. "Marketing review", "Financial evaluation" or whatever.
 
I know I can change the WI text, but real estate available witin the
text is very limited and I already have enough info to cram in there.
Sending something to Marketing to tell them 'TLA for Marketing' just
seems a waste of text space.
 
Any ideas welcome...
Cheers
Mike