Edit the 'New Task' iView

Question

Hello!
I want to know if there's a way to edit the 'New Task' iView from the Universal Worklist iview (com.sap.netweaver.bc.uwl.ui.UWL).
I want to put a specific USER in the field 'Assigned to' and make it fixed, where the user could not change it.
Is it possible ? how can it be done ?
Thanks in advance,
Alessandro

Answer 1

Hello Alessandro,
New UWL Task iView is based on an WebDynpro application. There are two ways to accomplish your task:
1) Write your own, completely new, application
2) Use and modify existing standard one.
No doubt, second approach is easier.
You are interested in application
tckmcbc.uwl.ui~wd_ui/UWL
(WD Project : tckmcbc.uwl.ui~wd_ui ; Application : UWL)
Workaround is following:
1) download this app. from WEB AS
2) import it into your NWDS, the sources are built in
3) Modify UWL application (component)
4) ... the most challenging point, depends on the access point you want to use your modified app. at.
When deploying, you usually upload your application to "local" namespace. In this case, u have to modify the link of the command (button) that starts the wizard, to point it to your locally deployed app.
Or you can (manually) modify the MANIFEST.MF and SAP-MANIFEST.MF files in result package (ear for WD), to change the "local" key-vendor and key-location values to [sap.com]. Then your application will replace standard one and will be used as default (no need to customize noth.).
For example, we had a request to add "New UWL Task" button to Meeting detail iView (Collabotration). Another request was: automatically set the meeting Subject to UWL task name.  To do so, we had do decompile standard MeetingOverview functionality and ad another button "Create Task" to meeting detail page. Then this button was linked to our custom application. If you are interested, i could send you that WD UWL project, we've have prepared (to avoid steps 1-2).
mz