Worklist Item status

Hi Tanguy,

thanks. I haven't thought about that at the moment it is still set to 1 slot. I am gonna try it out directly an let you know if it worked.
No stop just read your post again. I don't want it to be set as available it should be set up to allocated if one takes the item. So will it help if I set the slot to two ? Hmm just gonna try it.

But that is exactly what i did.
I have 1 slot for two users but the item still appears as available for the one who didn't take the item.
Do you have any further ideas.

That is the strange thing.
First I am talking about the Workspace Worklist Items cos unfortunatly I am not using sharepoint so my Infopath forms are published to a webserver.
Lets assume I am the one who enters or opens the Worklist Item in the Workspace then it shows still the status available for me and the status for the second user (in his workspace) is also still set to available and even more, he can also open the form even if I have done that already.

By the way, thx for you effort

Ok thx anyway.
Hope that may be Renier, Ockert or Neil or someone else will have some advice for me tomorrow.

the behaviour you are seeing is expected in an InfoPath client event. When the InfoPath form is opened, the CanISubmit method of the InfoPathService.asmx is called. Part of this call is to open the worklist item, but it is not allocated to the user opening the form.
As I understand, the reason for this behaviour is because the user may not know whether they want to accept the worklist item until they see the form data.

Off the top of my head I can suggest some workarounds for this behaviour:
If you always want the task assigned to the user and you are using a cutom worklist, you can use the K2Connection.OpenWorkListItem(serialnumber) method or
WorkListItem.Open() to change the status of the worklist item before directing the user to the URL of the worklist item.

Alternatively, you can add code to the load event of the infopath form to call the K2Connection.OpenWorkListItem(serialnumber) method to force the item's status to change. (Note that you can only use managed code in InfoPath forms with Office SP1 or higher. Otherwise you will have to use scripting and probably create a web service that can call this code for you.)
If you want the user to decide whether they want to accept the task item or not before submitting the form, then you could add a button on the form which calls K2Connection.OpenWorkListItem(serialnumber) method.

I have a new problem,

as NeilM decided (good idea) I added a button to my view and the Users can decide wether they want to set the status of the task list item to open or if they want to leave it to someone else. I use this code:

SourceCode.K2ROM.Connection myK2Conn   = new SourceCode.K2ROM.Connection();
   SourceCode.K2ROM.WorklistCriteria myCriteria = new SourceCode.K2ROM.WorklistCriteria();
   myK2Conn.Open("luxdevas02");
   SourceCode.K2ROM.Worklist myWorkList   = myK2Conn.OpenWorklist(myCriteria.Platform);

   foreach(SourceCode.K2ROM.WorklistItem myWorkListItem in myWorkList)
   {
    string strSerial = myWorkListItem.SerialNumber.ToString();
    myK2Conn.OpenWorklistItem(strSerial, myCriteria.Platform, true);
   }
   myK2Conn.Close();

The status change works and the worklist item gets allocated for the other users but the problem is that lets say I have 10 WorklistItems in my Worklist and I open one Item (Infopath form) and press the Accept button that the status of all 10 Items is set to open and so they are all allocated for all other users. Of course that is not what I want. Can someone tell me what is wrong with my code. I think that I have to be more specific about which Item I want to change the status for but how ?

Thx in advance.

Thx I am gonna try that.

If I remember correctly, there is a my:SN element in the K2InfoPathSchema XML Activity Datafield which contains the serial number for the activity already. You can then use that value to open the worklist item.

Note that if you have the serial number, you can also open a worklist item directly without needing to loop through the collection of worklist items - have a look at the OpenWorkListItem method of the K2ROM's Connection object.

If my:SN does not work, have a look at the code of the InfoPath client event - this is the code that adds the worklist item to the user's worklist.
You can reference K2.SerialNumber in this code and you can then assign the serialnumber to an activity datafield or even store it as part of the temporary InfoPath file's name.

Note at the end of the code is the code is a line "K2.AddWorklist("ASP",FileURL);" - this is the method that adds the worklist item to the user's worklist.

Hope this helps,
Neil