[JarodC]

Am I right in saying the system is really built around the inbox, i.e. it doesn't matter whether the next task is also assigned to the same user, that user will have to go back to the inbox each time, find the next task in that process and initiate it manually.

So for a process with three tasks that the user needs to perform, the steps would be:
1) New Case: ABC Process
2) Perform Task 1 in process
3) Go to inbox find task and start it
4) Perform Task 2 in process
5) Go to inbox find task and start it
6) Perform task 3 in process
7) Process complete

Is this right? Is there no way to check whether the next task is also assigned to the user and if so continue with the process?
This seems to really make it easier to start lots of things and not necessarily finish them before starting other things.
As a workaround you could combine all the tasks into one task (as lots of steps), but this really goes away from the BPMN modelling concept.

Am I missing something?

[amosbatto]

OK, I finally figured out how to do this.

If you want to avoid having to press the "Continue" button at the end of the task, create the following trigger and set it to execute before assignment:

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PMFDerivateCase(@@APPLICATION, @%INDEX);

If you want to go directly to the next task without going to the inbox, then create the following trigger and set it to execute after routing:

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$caseId = @@APPLICATION;
$nextIndex = @%INDEX + 1;
G::header("Location:cases_Open?APP_UID=$caseId&DEL_INDEX=$nextIndex&action=draft");
die();

I have attached a sample process which shows how to do this.

Check_PMFDerivateCase-2.pmx

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[JarodC]

Brilliant, worked! Thanks heaps

Would be great to see this as an underlying feature of a process in a later release. I think that would add a lot of value

[amosbatto]

There is no chance of it being added to the PM code because some users want to know when a task starts and ends, but I have added the code to the PMFDerivateCase() documentation so that others can use it.