Workflow - Create Task activity - Get task number

[Community Alums]

Hi everyone,

I could use some help with this issue.

Here is what I'm trying to do:

Goal:  Create a change record after a catalog task is completed and store the change # in the catalog task.  Do not continue the workflow until the catalog task AND change are closed.

Current solution:

Within the workflow, after the Catalog Task activity, I added a Create Task activity that creates the change and clicked "Wait for completion".  This will allow the workflow to proceed when the change closes.  

Issue with above solution:  I need to store the change number (not the Sys ID) in the catalog task description within the Create Task activity but it doesn't seem to be available because I can't determine when the change is committed to the database.

Another idea I thought about using was the Wait for Condition activity but that only applies when the record (in this case, the requested item) is updated so that won't work.  

Any suggestions on how to store the change number into the catalog task?

[Chuck Tomasi]

I don't think this is possible within the Create Task activity. I just did a test and tried the following with no result.

gs.info('new task number=' + task.getDisplayValue());

So the task number isn't known until after the Create task runs.

[Community Alums]

Chuck,

Thanks for the information. Any suggestions/ideas on how I could do what I want to do?  Perhaps a business rule on the sc_task on update?  I'm suggesting on how to do this.

Thanks,

[Chuck Tomasi]

You and I and Stewe Lundin are the same wavelength. A BR on the sc_task record could retrieve the sys_id, number (aka Display Value) etc and you could then store that in the change record provided you have a link of some time (a la a reference field that links the task to the change) then update the change.

[dvp]

You can use getNextObjNumberPadded to get the next number

new NumberManager(gr.sys_meta.name).getNextObjNumberPadded()