How can I find out whether a task is workflow-generated?

[andrewcampbell]

Hey folks,

Newbie here...I'm wondering if there is a way that I can tell whether a task is workflow-generated?   I had hoped that there would be a "created-by" field which would indicate some system account, but the only field I can find like this contains the account of the user who created the change to which the workflow-generated change task I was using as an example belonged.

Thanks in advance!

Andy

[mitchell_stutle]

Hey Andrew,

I just went through something similar to this and it didn't look like Opened By or Created By were going to help. You can add a true/false field to the task table and have it set to true for tasks created in the workflow.

- Mitch Stutler

[andrewcampbell]

Thanks!     This is the way I actually developed it, since I didn't find out about the wf_activity.   This does work well enough, but is a potential maintainability problem down the road.   I plan to switch over to using the wf_activity field instead on a later sprint.

[acretion · Accepted solution]

You could look to see if the 'wf_activity' field is populated maybe? I'm guessing this should be blank for manually created tasks but not 100% sure.

[andrewcampbell]

Didn't know about that rascal!   That's just what I was looking for!   Thanks!