Workflow: One out of two, part two
Friday, January 13, 2006 at 10:59AMOne of my other colleagues thought my suggestion was a bad idea. I agree…for the exact scenario I described, I may have over engineered the problem and solution. An easier way to solve this particular problem would be to simply assign the task to two people. The first one to approve finishes that task and the workflow moves on. But what if you actually want one of two paths of tasks to complete. Whoever finishes first negates the need for the other path. Or maybe you want to use the canvas to visually see which path was taken. Perhaps the most value out of my example should come from learning about the Business Rule action. Using this action, you can easily allow another action to fire if a condition is met, otherwise fire another action. Anyway, keep it in mind for a workflow problem you may have in the future.
Reader Comments (4)
How do "simply assign the task to two people"? Can you have more than one user as responsible for a task?
Thanks.
Your choices for that are to either set up a share's tasks relationship, or assign the task to a group which includes those two users.
The best way to assign a task to a "dynamic" number of people is to launch several sub-processes, right?
I don't know if there is ever one "Best" way to do anything in workflow. That is certainly one way to do it, though that isn't really assigning a single task to one user, but rather creating a new task for each user.