Adobe Campaign Workflow Approval Task

[#1]

Hi,

In a workflow I have an approval task and I need to set the assignee dynamically in the workflow, there are over 40 different possible assignees for the approval and I do not want to have 40 plus approval tasks.

I could see that I can add a 'Filter' assignment type, but when I add a filter condition based on 'Email equals $(instance/vars/@who) I get the message that the variable does not exist in this context.

I have tried various formats $(instance/vars/who) etc. for the variable without any luck so far.

Jeremy

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I have taken another look at this today and have managed to do what I want using the following method:

In a previous javascript step set an Instance variable with a list of the operators I want to be approvers.

Then in the approval task I have used a filter assignment type and added a set of dummy conditions that will not match existing operators:

     email equals "noone@nowhere.com"

I then used the approval task advanced tab and in the initialisation javascript I modified the conditions to match the approvers from the instance variable:

activity.assigneeFilter.where.condition[operatorcount].expr = "@email = '" + operator.@email + "'";

This seems to work and I can set up any approvers I want dynamically

Thanks

Jeremy

[#3]

Hi Jeremy,

Since this activity only lets you pick an operator from a defined list, I'm not sure you can use a variable here.

Florent

[#4]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, what I am trying to do is set the assignee dynamically in the task, i.e. set a variable in a javascript just before the approval task based on the context of some sort and use that variable as the assignee in the approval task.

Jeremy

[#5]

Hi Jeremy,

You should be able to select 'operator' assignment type, and pick a single assignee from the Assignee dropdown box.