Displaying workflow item information from a custom ASPX task form
When building custom workflows, often we want custom Task edit screens as well. A custom Task Content Type allows us to collect much deeper data than 'completed'. However, since we are ditching the default Task edit pages, we lose a couple of useful features; a link to the underlying Workflow item as well as the implied context of the Task. Given the need to provide context to the user when overrriding the default task form, you may come across the desire to display some file information, custom columns/properties, links, etc on the task edit page. To accomplish this, we need to gain two pieces of understanding: How and when to modify ASPX page elements from the code-behind c# class How to extract the underlying information from the Workflow's original item When: during the page_load() of inherited class; protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (!Page.IsPostBack) { ...
