Pulldown list label value on approval form.

Hi,

I have a workflow with a pulldown list where you can choose an
application name. The source of the list is a DAL list
(value"groupname", label"displayname"). The value of the DAL
list is
used at the end of the workflow to make the recipient member of a group
with the name that equals the value. This works fine.

The manager who needs to approve/deny the request however does not see
what he is approving. The workflow title is always the same. I want to
display the label from the DAL list in the approval form so he can see
what the approval is about.

Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thanks


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On 05/16/2008 04:56 AM, corstroe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a workflow with a pulldown list where you can choose an
> application name. The source of the list is a DAL list
> (value"groupname", label"displayname"). The value of
the DAL list is
> used at the end of the workflow to make the recipient member of a group
> with the name that equals the value. This works fine.
> 
> The manager who needs to approve/deny the request however does not see
> what he is approving. The workflow title is always the same. I want to
> display the label from the DAL list in the approval form so he can see
> what the approval is about.
> 
> Does anybody have a suggestion?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 


In the Start Activity properties you can use Display Name Override to 
write an ECMAScript expression which will change the resource name that 
is used on the workflow to anything you want. Including fields that were 
entered on the Request form and saved into flowdata.

thanks for the quick answer, but...



I`ve tried to replace the title in the POST activity of the start
activity with "flowdata.application" . This info is taken from the
selection made in the puldown list. But still if the manager looks in
his tasks or opens the approval tasks, the title isn't replaced. 



So where do i overide the default title field?? In the Pre of prost
activty dataitem mapping of the start activity??



Regards


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On 05/19/2008 08:16 AM, corstroe wrote:

> 
> I`ve tried to replace the title in the POST activity of the start
> activity with "flowdata.application" . This info is taken from
the
> selection made in the puldown list. But still if the manager looks in
> his tasks or opens the approval tasks, the title isn't replaced. 
> 
> 
> 
> So where do i overide the default title field?? In the Pre of prost
> activty dataitem mapping of the start activity??
> 

It is not in the post activity. It is in the properties editor for the 

Somehow I don't have this property in the Start Activity. The only
properties I have are Name and Digital Signature. In the Designer help
however I can see the Display Name Override property option.

Can it be that this is version dependent. I run Designer 2.1.1 and User
Application driver 0.20070302.162319.


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