Solved

How to reference an task created by workflow

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
August 17, 2023
3 replies
101 views

+4

rei_dipetersen
Scholar

I am creating a task assigning it to our IT group so that anyone in that group can complete the task. I have to send the notification to our Helpdesk application via Email.

I created a parallel action. One branch creates the task, the other branch waits for a minute and then sends the notification to the Helpdesk.

In the notification, I would like to reference the task created. How do I get the value of the task created? The “Store Task Id” in variable isn’t populated until the task has been completed. How else can we get the value of the task ID?

Best answer by rei_dipetersen

I ended up creating a parallel execution branch. I created a task in one branch and in the other, I waited a minute and then queried the task list for the task that I created in the other branch. To me, this is a hack. The create task action should return a task ID so we can send notifications (outside the control) or so we can add meta-data to the task form.

+23

SimonMuntz
Nintex Employee
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
December 6, 2023

Hi @rei_dipetersen,

To obtain the Task ID, you need to query the task list and search for the recently created task. To quickly locate the task just created, you can create a unique task name by appending the date and time to the name.

New look Nintex University is HERE: https://learn.nintex.com

N

Like

+4

rei_dipetersen
Author
Scholar
Answer
Forum|Forum|1 year ago
December 11, 2023

I ended up creating a parallel execution branch. I created a task in one branch and in the other, I waited a minute and then queried the task list for the task that I created in the other branch. To me, this is a hack. The create task action should return a task ID so we can send notifications (outside the control) or so we can add meta-data to the task form.