GP: How to navigate to a current work item?

Question

Hi all,
I've got just another question regarding GP and the Runtime View.
I noticed that there are at least 3 ways to navigate to someone's work item:
- the GP Runtime View ("Tasks that require my action", ...)
- the UWL
- a seperate WebDynpro (WDPortalNavigation.navigateAbsolute...)
All these options work - but in every case, the Runtime View looks different. Let's see:
1.) Header and navigation are visible, header shows the process instance name
2.) Header and navigation look equally, but the header shows the template's name
3.) Header and navigation invisible
In the third case I used the IGPWorkItem's "generateNavigationTargetForSingleTaskUI" method to generate the URL, to which I navigate. Another method is shown in
<a href="/people/dipankar.saha3/blog/2007/04/10/how-to-open-running-gp-processes-from-web-dynpro-applications blog</a>, but this only takes me to the Runtime's overview...
Now my question: Is there a way to have a consistent perspective on my work items? Regardless of which navigation I use?
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Daniel

Answer 1

Hi Dipankar,
that's kind of strange. I'm doing the following:
//Start a process
IGPProcessInstance prInstance =
               rtm.startProcess(
                    process,
                    processName,
                    processDescription,
                    user,
                    roles,
                    params,
                    user);
//Getting the Process-Instance-Id and putting it into a Context
wdContext.currentContextElement().setProcessID(prInstance.getID());
//Showing some Process-Start-Results on a different View, and when the users pushs the next-button...
//Getting the ProcessInstanceId back
String processID = wdThis.wdGetRefitStartCompController().wdGetContext().currentContextElement().getProcessID();
//And redirect...
WDPortalNavigation.navigateAbsolute(
                              gpRuntimeIViewURL,
                              WDPortalNavigationMode.SHOW_INPLACE,
                              WDPortalNavigationHistoryMode.NO_DUPLICATIONS,
                              "processId="+processID);
And this dosn't bring the pending workitem up, but the runtime overview. I'm sure, the Process Instance Id and the Runtime Url are correct.
Any hints what's happening here.
Thank you very much.
Daniel