User Decision with Secondary Method

Dear All,
I have created a user decision step for Leave Request workflow (ie. to approve or reject ).
This is done for multiple approvals of leave request through UWL i.e. user can select multiple requests & take decisions(approve/reject).
In the user decision step, i want to use a method other than standard task TS00008267.
In the methods tab i have used Secondary Method,
Object Category as Class
Obj.Type as CL_PT_REQ_WF_ATTRIBS
Method DUMMY.( as per the standard workflow - WS12300111).
But no value is returned by this method. How can binding be done here so as to use the values in further steps??
Please help.
Regards,
Vidya

Hey it is very easy to know whetehr the leave is approved or not. and even you can get this decision into the workflow container
No need of using any secondary methods SURE
See the step Approval in the Leave workflow will use Dummy method of that class that you have mentioned.
Your staus is updated in the REQ container element of the workflow , it is the that you mentioned, in that class you have a attribute with name Status whe you approve it will be changed to Approved when the leave is created it will be Sent , so by using a Condition step check this attribute value if it is approved then in update one conatiner element by using Container operation step.

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