Check specific attributes from common views

Question

Is there a was to only checkout certain attributes from a common view?
For example if I am only interested in checking out the lastLogon , userAccountControl and Description (AD) attributes from the "user" view. How would I do so with out checking out the entire "user" view?
During a workflow I wish to check out the specific attributes and then make my changes and then check the object back in.
Please let me know if this is possible.
Another example)
Currently if i wanted to unlock all acount from a workflow I would use the following code. But I am really only using the "account locked" attribute so if there were a way to limit the view checkout to the "accountlocked" attribute then I could probably streamline the process.
<Activity id='3' name='UnlockAD'>
        <Comments>&#xA;          On Success do a global unlock .&#xA;        </Comments>
        <Action id='0' application='com.waveset.session.WorkflowServices'>
          <Argument name='op' value='checkoutView'/>
          <Argument name='type' value='Unlock'/>
          <Argument name='id' value='$(accountId)'/>
          <Argument name='subject' value='admin_user'/>
          <Argument name='authorized' value='true'/>
          <Return from='view' to='uview'/>
        </Action>
        <Action id='1'>
          <expression>
            <block>
              <set>
                <ref>uview.global.accountLocked</ref>
                <s>false</s>
              </set>
            </block>
          </expression>
        </Action>
        <Action id='2' application='com.waveset.session.WorkflowServices'>
          <Argument name='op' value='checkinView'/>
          <Argument name='subject' value='admin_user'/>
          <Argument name='authorized' value='true'/>
          <Argument name='view' value='$(myview)'/>
        </Action>
        <Transition to='Notify User'/>
      </Activity>

Answer 1

sec_tk wrote:
Checking out a user view will always get you the whole view, you cannot get a partial view. What would be possible is coding your own view, but that requires a lot of hacking and I don't think it's worth the effort.Sorry to jump in late but just for clarification of others who happen to stumble on this by a search you most definitely can checkout a view with only partial data returned. It's one of the optimization techniques recommended to speed up workflows.
See [http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-5823/ahyci?l=en&a=view&q=TargetResources] and use the TargetResources argument when checking out a view.So your checkout view action would look like this:
<Action application='com.waveset.session.WorkflowServices'>
    <Variable name='view'/>
    <Argument name='op' value='checkoutView'/>
    <Argument name='type' value='User'/>
    <Argument name='id' value='$(WF_CASE_OWNER)'/>
    <Argument name='Form' value='Empty Form'/>
    <Argument name='TargetResources'>
        <list>
            <String>Resource 1</String>
            <String>Resource 2</String>
        </list>
    </Argument>
    <Return from='view' to='user'/>
</Action>