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UWL standard item attributes - CreatorId and link with the task container

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Dear portal specialists,

As you maybe know, for some workflows that come in the UWL, the column "From" indicates "Workflow system" as the creator of the item.

Example: A expenses is sent by an employee via ESS and falls into the UWL. The column "From" should retrieve the employee name but actually it shows "Workflow System".

My understanding so far is:

- the creator of an item in the worklist is retrieved via a standard attribute "creatorId".

- this standard attribute is defined like this in the documentation: "The user (if any) that created the item or initiated the workflow process. Is a portal user id if available".

My question is: this creatorId attribute retrieves a specific parameter within the container BUT what parameter (the exact name like for instance WfInitiator) ?

My final goal is to modify the container of every workflows that retrieve the "Workflow System" in the from column to send the correct name.

Thanks a lot in advance for your precious comments,

Cheers,

David Fraiture

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Hello David,

We looked into a similar issue regarding the UWL and have yet to find a solution. We have workitems whose from field are field with Workflow System as well, but what REALLY bothers us at the moment is that we have users in the from field whose usernames are prefixed with US. For example USHANS instead of HANS...

The user comes out of the backend system like this, from the workflow. I was hoping to find a central place on the SAP System where I could make a change to keep it from doing that but to no avail...

The problem is that the UME cannot resolve the user USHANS, and therefor the from field will display USHANS instead of the fullname of the user HANS...

Do you have this problem as well? Please keep us posted if you find a solution yourself as well!

Cheers,

Hermann

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As far as I understand what you did, I don't have the same problem.

When it returns correctly the user name, I don't have this US just before the name.

Actually, I try to compare different workflows to see what parameter is taken out of the container by the column From and its standard item attribute, creatorId.

Sometimes it seems to take the creator Id out of a Wf_Initiator parameter, sometimes it seems to take it out of a "CreatedByUser"

The SAP definition for the creatorId is: "The user (if any) that created the item or initiated the workflow process. Is a portal user id if available".

Does it mean it takes the first portal user it finds and retrieves it in the from column ?