Custom pages at each workflow step in UCM

How can I link custom pages (say JSP pages) with a workflow step in UCM? Suppose I've a workflow with a reviewer and approver and I want to get some field values at each step, how can I do so? Currently, the only option I get is Approve/Reject links at each step.

so suppose you create an HCST page (see Bex's book if any of you reading aren't sure what those are) and check it into the content server.
You will need to reference it from the workflow in queue page or the emails that get sent out to the step reviewers (or both).
I suspect that in addition to calling the page (via URL) you would also pass some information on the URL like the content ID of the item being reviewed in workflow, the workflow step, etc. That information will be available already on the page you are navigating from.
Then your hcst looks and functions like any other template page. It has the information from the URL params that it can use as inputs for additional queries or services that you're executing. There are some examples of basic HCSTs in the book and in the Dynamic Server Pages guide here:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10316_01/cs/cs_doc_10/documentation/developer/dynamic_server_pages_10en.pdf

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