Notification if MA inside of PA

Question

Hello,
I created notification using this great tutorial
http://www.scsm.se/?p=948, all notifications are sent to Affected and AssignedTo users of parent Service Request, if Manual Activities are updated. But it doesn't work if Manual Activity is inside of Parallel Activity. How can we create a relationship
between Service Request and Manual Activity in Parallel Activity?

Answer 1

The unfortunate answer is that you can't.
that's not technically true. you can, but:
not through the UI; you have to edit the XML directly.
You'd have to know in advance exactly how many levels to go up. 
You'll probably want to take a look at
my post on the subject of MP variables, and then dig through the MP XML that defines your notification rules to locate the notification target, and then add an additional Path[] block to the reference so that the reference goes from your MA, to the
parent activity through the relationship System.WorkItemHasParentWorkItem, then onto the parent SR. 
a separate problem comes up in that this new MP reference will only work if there is exactly one container activity (SA or PA) between the MA and SR, i.e. the Grandparent case. If you have a SA inside a PA (like you have two three step processes that should
start at the same time), then you will need another notification rule for this Great-Grandparent case. depending on how deep you wish to support nesting, you will  need one copy of each notification rule for each level (parent, grandparent, great grand
parent, etc).