Hi Aaron, We've been developing both Event Handlers (Inbound Email, Item Added and Item Updated) and Workflows lately. I guess it depends on what you mean by "I can track the responses based on the Status and ID of the actual task that was created". If you want to do that programmatically, then a workflow will be the best / only way to go.
An ItemAdded Event Handler (which would be the logical choice given what you've described) will terminate once the task or tasks have been created, giving you no programmatic control over monitoring the tasks. A workflow on the other hand (probably a sequential one from your description), would become idle after the tasks were created and wait for changes to the task status etc ... Having said that from our experience Workflows are a more complex beast to write, and if you end up deciding you need a state machine workflow, that complexity increases further. Hope that helps, Trevor Andrew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Cunnington Sent: Monday, 7 July 2008 4:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] Event Handler vs Workflow Hi guys, I need to have an item added to a sharepoint list, once that item is added I then need to assign a task to each user that was part of a SharePoint group. Once a user has been assigned a task and an email has been sent, I then just need to be able to track who has accepted/ approved the task and who has not. The workflow task really just needs to assign/create a new task list item for each user in the group, I can then track the responses based on the Status and ID of the actual task that was created. Any suggestions on whether this should be an event handler on the original list where the item was created or should we use a workflow? cheers Aaron ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
