BPM 11G comments and file attachments issue on human tasks

Question

Hi all,
We have used JDeveloper 11G and SOA suite 11G + BPM (with PS1,PS2) to create and deploy a simple BPM process. The process consists of two swim-lanes ( Business Analyst and Snr Executive). The BA swim-lane has a human task which which initiates the process and the second swim-lane (SE) has a voting task. Both forms were auto generated.
------ Process steps ----
step 1. The initiator of the process( Business analyst) submits a document and adds comments on the form. (1st swim lane)
step 2. The task is received by the Snr Executive group and they need to accept or reject the document.
step 3. If any of the Snr Execs rejects the document, the process flow goes back to the Business analyst(the requester or initiator) for review.
(the voting group is able to share comments and the file attachments).
step 4. The business analyst receives a task on her list. This task list should have the comments made by the Snr Execs who rejected the document. ---This is where we are having a problem. The business Analyst, receives the task, but the document and comments are not updated. This still shows the original document and comments, she sent when initiating the process.
We have opened a SR with My Oracle support and it was suggested we apply a hot fix 9958661, which was done (see output below). Unfortunately this did not solve the problem.
Questions:
1. Is the default behavior of BPM 11G ?
2. How can we change this behavior to do what we want ?
---------------------------------------opatch update output -----------------------------------------------------------
ApplySession adding interim patch '9958661' to inventory
Verifying the update...
Inventory check OK: Patch ID 9958661 is registered in Oracle Home inventory with proper meta-data.
Files check OK: Files from Patch ID 9958661 are present in Oracle Home.
The local system has been patched and can be restarted
I any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks
Mocheche

Answer 1

Ok, this is what i did:
- I have a Process Data Object called CustomComments with just 1 attribute called comments.
- I have added that object to my user screens (adf page)
- Changed its columns att to 65 and rows to 8 (i chose that layout)
- Used a tableLayout to add an icon next to this text area to allow the user to add comments:
<af:commandImageLink shortDesc="addCommentImage" id="addCommentImage" partialSubmit="true" icon="/hw_images/new_ena.png">
     <af:clientListener method="myFunction" type="click"/>
     <af:clientAttribute name="attributeName" value="attributeValue"/>
</af:commandImageLink>
I use that clientAttribute to send the logged user to the javascipt.
- I added this after the af:document on top of the page to make the customComments readonly to the user (you need to do it here because if you set it in the properties the element is not updated later), so the user has to use the button i put to add comments:
<f:facet name="metaContainer">
     <f:facet name="metaContainer">
     <af:resource type="javascript">
          function readOnly(){
               var comms = document.getElementById("it1::content");
               comms.setAttribute("readOnly","true")
     </af:resource>
</f:facet>
<af:clientListener method="readOnly" type="load"/>
- Somewhere i added the javascript the commandLink calls:
<trh:script id="myScripts">
     function addComment(evt){
          var commentArea = document.getElementById("it1::content");
var user = evt.getSource().getProperty("user");
var comm = prompt("Please enter your comment: ","");
          if (comm != null) {
               if (comm != ""){
                    if (commentArea.value !=""){commentArea.value = commentArea.value + "\n"}
                    commentArea.value = commentArea.value + "user.value" + " : " + comm;
</trh:script>
After all this, you have an object that carries the comments from one screen (UI project) to another and is updated each time.
I know it may not be the perfect solution and that it could be improved a lot, but so far it does what i need so i use it.
If there is anything i wasnt clear enough, please let me know. Hope this helps.