Show more detail in perspectives or user interaction?

[jonathonUCB]

Is there anyway to show more information about a running/active task?  For example, I have a snapshot workflow that waits for user interaction to delete it.  Assuming there might be several of these alive at any given point I'd like to help my users identify which running task they should interact with.

I tried adding the name of the VM to the Business State in the workflow, but Business State is read-only.  I then tired to add the VM name as an attribute to the presentation side of the user interaction, but apparently you can only show external inputs on the presentation and those cannot be set to read-only, which is not ideal since I don't want the user mucking with that.

Any suggestions?  This is in lieu of being able to send a direct link to the running task within the perspective, which is what I was doing when using webviews (e.g. workflow.getAnswerUrl).

Thanks!

[KiwiDave]

I have been able to show information within the email interaction workflow in the following manner:

1 - Take values you want to show as inputs to the workflow.

2 - Create "placeholder" attributes the same as the inputs you wish to show.

3 - Within the "Accept Interaction" step of the workflow, add the placeholder attributes as external inputs.

4 - Within the presentation part of the "Accept Interaction" step of the workflow, make the default value of each placeholder attribute the corresponding workflow input.

You do not use the placeholder attributes for anything except displaying what the input values are, the user can change these if they like but nothing will happen (it is wise to put a note to this effect).

I am also looking for a way for putting information into the workflow name so that you don't have to drill into a workflow to find the details but this is not a solution I have found yet.

[jonathonUCB]

Thanks, this is a helpful workaround and will at least prevent someone from approving a workflow for a different VM.  I'll keep trying to find a way to show the details in workflow where it is more obvious and post back if I find something.

[cdecanini_]

oops wrong thread.