Adding info messages to a workflow's Task Result

[mercury (Keith Smith)]

Which IIQ version are you inquiring about?

Version 8.4

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I am a little troubled by the lack of information that most workflows offer in the TaskResult. Not tasks, but workflows. Normally the only info they present is the Current Workflow Step. I attempted to access the TaskResult in a step script, using TaskResult taskResult=wfcontext.getTaskResult(); and then adding Message objects to it, but not seeing those messages. Has anyone successfully done this? Can you share your insights (and code)?

[AdamVentum (Adam Waszak)]

Hi and Hello,
If I good undestand you, @mercury you want to have more info from workflow. I use this trick, maybe it help you. I choose workflow in gui, than “Process Variables”
trace and Output. You will have more info.

Regards,
Adam

[ashutosh08 (Ashutosh Singh)]

Hi @mercury,

Is it related to extra auditing information you want to maintain, or it is just about some specific use-case you want to modify the taskresult?

In ideal case you should not accessing this task result and modifying it directly from workflow itself.

Thanks

[patrickboston]

You need to add Message objects to the root WorkflowCase like so:

wfcontext.getRootWorkflowCase().addMessage(Message.error("Some error happened: " + e.getMessage(), null));

The TaskResult tied to the WorkflowCase will persist these messages.

[mercury (Keith Smith)]

@AdamVentum so I tried setting several workflow variables with output=“true” but not seeing them in the task result output page. While the tool tip might be correct, there is nothing in the task result allowing display of those values.

[mercury (Keith Smith)]

Righteous !! I did do the diligence and surround with a try catch block. Also I initially tried putting the code into a Script block but it negated my rule call, so I moved my script block into the Transition and just had the script block return true.