Workflow Status and Acceptance using Blackberry

[Sandip]

Hi...
I was wondering if we could use the Balckberry as a device to check on workflow status taking place in Contributor ??

Taking it a step further is it also possible to "accept" or "reject" plans using the blackberry as a device ??

Has anyone does this before ? Will the Blackberry need some form of an "add on / client " to be installed ?

Please do let me know if you have come across this ....

Thanks a Ton

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[praveennb]

Yes its possible, you will need to do a FULL table publish table and write query to publish tables to find the status, I'm unable to find the old document from IBM website (Finding anything is getting harder now), once i find the query i will post the link again. {Managed to find the link after 30 mins of searching which used to take 3 secs on the old Cognos web.!}

refer to this document for more details. you could follow similar steps.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/page268.html

OR you can query directly the contributor application itself , refer to the link below

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&context=SWQ00&q1=stateid&uid=swg21344393&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=all

To accept or reject plans without the planning contributor client will be difficult to do, unless you find a way into understanding Cognos system tables or do a custom application.

Hope this helps

[mizu]

i have developed a small application, that finds all contributor applications on the database server and detect workflow states for all of their elist items. the result is published to a table available as a HTML web page.

later on, i added some more columns to the table, that made possible to assign a responsible person for every elist item and a deadline when it had to be finished,.. then i added the possibility to add completely new tasks to this workflow monitoring system, so the users can input their own non-contributor tasks. also, they are able to create relationships between tasks, so now they can model and manage the whole workflow process from there,..

using this final table let me not only controll the workflow states of applications from one webpage, but also in connection with event studio it let me send out emails on a daily basis to all contributors that were late or, for example, few days before the deadline and havent started their work yet,..

furthurmore, using event studio you can do much more than just sending emails,.. it is possible to run any planning macro from here when some event condition (like the contrib app is in finished state) is met,..

so yes, after some development, it is possible to track down all workflow states from web and your blackberry, without using any addon or client.. you need only connection to web and a browser,..

as bi007 said, accepting and rejecting is most probably also possible, but it could be more complicated than just monitoring the workflow states,..