suppose I have the following workflow:

start > approval1 > approval2 > approval3, in apporval3 i need to display all the comments and the decisions which took place in approval1 and approval2.

To capture comments entered by an actor, add a variable with name prefixed by '^', the name of the activity and 'CommentApproved' or 'CommentRejected'.

E.g. ^apporval1CommentApproved

The variable will capture the details of comments of action performend. 

Rajarshi Das

Hi,

Can you please send the screenshot workflow and mark with in which activity you want to access the comments?

Please do attach the file. Don’t insert image directly to the post, as most of the times, it is not readable and There is no option to zoom the image.

Regards,

Bineesh E Raghavan

You can capture the comments given by the Actor by creating a variable in your workflow of type string. Varaible should be created in following way:

'^'+_WorkItem.HWSActivity.ActivityName+'CommentApproved'/'CommentRejected'

For Example: Suppose your Approval activity name is "Approval1". Create a variable in the workflow with the name as

^Approval1CommentApproved - For capturing the comments if Action taken is "Approve" or else

^Approval1CommentRejected - For capturing the comments if Action taken is "Reject".

You can use this variable in your custom aspx page to display the comments.

Regards,
Abhijeet Dubey

May be I could not describe my problem, I have an APSX page and I need to write all previous comments for all completed actions. If I have 50 actions, should I create 50 variables? I would like to use tha API so I can iterate to all completed actions and ask for the comments.

I hope

Hi,

If you have 50 activities, then you have to create 50 variables, either at run time  (refer to Abhijeet's post  or at designtime (refer rajarshi.das's post). 

If you could send the screenshot of the workflow design, We can guide you better.

Regards,

Bineesh E Raghavan