access the "user action" that triggered the last workflow action
Similarly to how you can include the comment entered by the last workflow action, I would also like a variable that gave me the name of the user action that triggered the last workflow action.
My use case is this:
User has to recommend a go/ no go decision on a document. Director has to approve that decision. The only way I can indicate in the email to the director that the user has recommend one way or another is to have two separate stages. This would be unnecessary, if I was able to share which workflow action the user selected. The user could have two workflow actions that both direct to the same next step.
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Thanks for this very interesting feature request!
Are you looking to retrieve the "action name" itself (like "Approve") and/or the "applied name action" (like "Approved")?
We had in mind providing both ;)
I could see a need for both the action name and the applied name, depending on how I was trying to craft the email. The applied name seems the most compelling for this use case, since I would be crafting an email to contain the action that had already been taken.
Glad to see this is planned. Here is another application of that, if you expose it in the scripting model.
I am trying to automate people responding if they will be attending an event. So, I have an event document that has a workflow that sends out information on the event, and has two buttons - "attending" and "not attending".
My workflow sits in the stage until all members of the group have responded one way or another. Using an update script, I can update the list of attendees, every time a member of the group clicks the button in their email. But, I cannot tell if they chose to attend or not attend... : (
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