Create Pseudo Work Item

API Type

Web Services

Description

Creates a Carbon copy task for a manager that does not have to be completed in order for a process instance to advance to the next activity.

Good to Know

To call this method, the API account user must have the access right, Create a Task.

Syntax

public virtual WFEvent CreatePseudoWorkItem(string SourceWorkItemID, string WorkToPerform, string UserID, WFTimeDuration duration, string ClientData, bool bReserved)

Parameters

Name	Description
SourceWorkItemID	Function: An ID that represents the original, or source, work item. Type string Accepted Values: A valid, unique 32-character ID.
WorkToPerform	Function: Represents the task that performed by the participants of the activity. Type string Accepted Values: A valid work to perform name.
UserID	Function: Specifies the user associated with the work item. Type string Accepted Values: A valid user ID.
duration	Function: Specifies the duration settings of a work item. Type WFTimeDuration Accepted Values: A valid WFTimeDuration object.
ClientData	Function: Specifies the client data, which identifies a client for AgilePoint Server. Type string Accepted Values: A string that contains the client data. If this value is null, the system will keep existing client data. Otherwise the relevant data is overwritten.

Output

WFEvent object that provides the status of the transaction. The possible statuses are:

Sent - Indicates event has been sent to engine for processing.
Failed - Indicates event failed to process.
Processed - Indicates event has been processed successfully.
Canceled - Indicates event was canceled.
Deferred - Indicates event does not need to be sent immediately.

Example

IWFWorkflowService svc = base.GetWorkflowService();

// get existing work item
string workItemID = ..// for example, "90CF843AC57644058A391FBFA030F607"

try
	{
    // Get the source WFManualWorkItem object
    WFManualWorkItem SourceWorkItem = svc.GetWorkItem(workItemID)
    string WorkToPerform = sourceWorkItem.Name; //different
    WorkToPerform can be used if desired
    WFTimeDuration duration = new WFTimeDuration("15", WFTimeUnit.DAY, false);
    string UserID = @"[DOMAIN NAME]\username"; //the participant of the linked work item
    WFEvent evt = svc.CreatePseudoWorkItem (
             SourceWorkItem.WorkItemID,
             WorkToPerform,
             UserID,
             duration,
             null,
             false);
	}

catch( Exception ex)
	{
    Console.WriteLine("Failed! " + ShUtil.GetSoapMessage(ex));
    }

Supported Versions

3.2.0.4 and higher

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