Hi Paul,
Thanks for that ... Actually the workflows we are developing are in VS, and we're getting most of the features of the custom content types for tasks working, just this remaining one of the "Content Type" column being visible when we don't want it remains. The key gotchas we came across when creating tasks based upon these custom content types included: . Using the CreateTaskWithContentType activity in the workflow instead of CreateTask, . Ensuring you have the content type specified associated with the task list you're creating them in, . Ensuring when you re-release your content type again, that you disassociate the old version from the task list, and associate the new version, otherwise tasks using the earlier version of the content type will keep getting created, and . All the usual stuff about getting correlation tokens straight etc etc Not sure whether this is relevant to the problems you experienced, as it sounds like your workflows are designer built workflows. But as I said it's just this one remaining stumbling block the "hiding" of this "Content Type" column when editing the task ... Cheers, Trevor From: Paul Noone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 28 July 2008 10:50 AM To: Trevor Andrew Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Custom Task Content Types - can I hide the "Content Type" column when editing task Hi Trevor, I've run into the same issue with the custom task columns appearing unbidden. It's a right pain. I would have thought that creating a custom content type on a task list meant that when you targeted that list with a workflow which creates a new task, it would display the custom columns within the edit form for that item. Alas, no. Seems the built-in "Create task" function is hard-wired to use the Task content type and not the columns or custom content types associated with your list. Looks like VS is the only solution for developing real custom workflows without having to resort to K-2 or some other horrendously expensive solution. We've had to go down the event handler path to try to automate this workflow, especially with regards to querying AD for the user's manager etc. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trevor Andrew Sent: Monday, 28 July 2008 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] Custom Task Content Types - can I hide the "Content Type" column when editing task Hi All, I've created a number of custom content types that inherit from the Workflow Task, and hence also Task, content types. We've done this to accommodate some task type specific outcomes for each of these different custom task content types. When *editing* these tasks however, a column "Content Type" is displayed, which is a drop-down containing the content type hierarchy (e.g. My Task Content Type, Workflow Task and Task). If you select one of the parent content types, the columns displayed for our task change to those associated for that parent task. We'd like to avoid the Content Type column being displayed in the standard edit form. I've already suppressed a number of other standard columns from the parent content types by referencing them in the custom content type definition, and setting the column Hidden attribute to true, but this doesn't seem to apply the Content Type drop-down column. Any advice on how I can do this would be most appreciated. Cheers, Trevor Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
