Workflow Action Popup Should Show Who Will Receive a Document From the Action, if applicable
When a user clicks the workflow action button, there is a pop up that comes up to confirm their action and let them leave a comment. We think it would be a significant upgrade if this pop up had more information in it so the user can understand their action better, specifically in the case of actions that will trigger tasks for others. For example, if a users triggers a "Send to Review" action, it would be immensely helpful if the pop up displayed the users that the review/approval will be sent to. In our case, these users come from a field that the user may have filled out weeks in advance and not even realize who they are sending something to. I have used various DMS tools because and the workflow actions have always made it abundantly clear who you are about to send a task to. User testing demonstrated 5/6 test users were confused because of this lack of information.
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I would like to add here that the "see validators" extension does not show helpful data either. When users click this button, I am not sure how it chooses what fields to display, but it does not display the list of users that the action impacts. In our case, when we send a document to approval, it shows the "reviewers" field in the validators, even though this field is not related to this transition and is already far in the past of the workflow.
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