Assigning a task to a previous task fulfiller

[Mario25]

Hello,

I have a workflow that opens a first task for approval then a series of tasks.  I require the second catalog task to be assigned to the assignee of the first.  I`ve tried a few things but the task keeps opening for the proper group but the assigned to is empty.

Workflow:

Script in the catalog task that is trying to assign to the tech:

Please help, we will be using this same workflow many times over.

[timmyweytjens]

Hello Mario,

Since assignment_group is a reference field, you should either do addQuery("assignment_group.name", "EXP - Techniciens"); or add in the sys_id of the assingment group.

However a better solution would be to add in the first task (the Stella Access Approval) a line to add it to the workflow scratchpad:

workflow.scratchpad.stellaTaskId = task.setNewGuid(); // get the sys_id of this task on the workflow scratchpad

Then you could do in this task:

var grTask = new GlideRecord("sc_task");

if(grTask.get(workflow.scratchpad.stellaTaskId)){

  task.assigned_to = grTask.assigned_to;

}

This would work even if the user changes the short description or assignment group.

[Mario25]

I just modified the first task to add that to the scratchpad and added the script into that task and same result.

[Mario25 · Accepted solution]

I finally realized that the approval task is the one opening the next task so I added this to the approval task to pull the scratchpad and push it into the next task:

var grTask = new GlideRecord("sc_task");
grTask.addQuery("sys_id", workflow.scratchpad.TaskId);
grTask.query();

while (grTask.next()) {
    grTask.assigned_to = tsk.assigned_to.sys_id;
    grTask.update();
}