BPM Task in UWL - From Field always empty, why?

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

do you know if it is possible to set the field "From" of a Task from BPM in the UWL?

It seems that for every task the standard field "From" is always empty and I have not found any documentation about how it would be possible to set a user here (if possible) or a clear statement that this is not used by SAP NetWeaver BPM.

Does anybody know if this field could be set from a Task (that would be great)?

Or does anybody knows a clear statement that this is not used in BPM Tasks (not so good but would clarify a lot)?

Thanks and best regards,

Stefan Brauneis

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I found the answer in SAP Note 1645848:

This is standard behaviour of the Universal Worklist and BPM.

The 'From' column is always empty for tasks created by BPM processes.

This is because it is not possible to determine from a process flow the issuer of a task.

In some scenarios, the issuer can be the user who started a process.

In other cases, it could be the person who was the previous processor of the task.

For the reason of mulitple variations, this field is kept blank and does not display a user name.

However, I think this is just a lake in the functionality. If it would be possible to set the "From" dynamically at the Task in most cases some meaninfull information could be presented to the user.

Best regards,

Stefan Brauneis