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Consistent Excel Output of Objects in the Properties Grid Data

Status: Comments Requested
by Douglas-Stahl on 10-31-2011 06:30 PM

We have been utilizing the Property Grid Output to effectively supporting documentation efforts outside of ProVision.  We output the Property Grid tables and paste them into a Word Document. We also use the exported data to analyze & audit the Business Processes

Problem 1: Consistency across objects
The output from the property grid object output is not consistent across similar objects used in a workflow.  We would like to see similar field output for several objects used in the Activity Usage/Process Step Usage Objects.  We request that the Performer & Parent Attributes be part of the output.

Problem 2:  Activity Usage/Process Step Usage name only includes "Qualified Name"
While we appreciate the output of a qualified name that includes the ProVision "Numbering", we would request an additional attribute column that contains the actual activity name WITHOUT the ProVision Number.  This would allow a person to output information and quickly identify similar, but duplicate activities.

Status: Comments Requested
Can you elaborate on Problem 1, maybe suppling a use-case with it. I think I'm following what you'd like, but I'd like to make sure before approaching development with it. As for Problem 2, I fully understand. Have you looked at the 'Number Prefix' column in the output? That has the number of the activity usage. What it doesn't have are all the parent numbers. So, 1.3.2, would be 2. This is because the activity usages can be reused in different workflows, with different parent numbers.
Comments
by Mark D Employee on 12-02-2011 02:33 PM
Status changed to: Comments Requested
Can you elaborate on Problem 1, maybe suppling a use-case with it. I think I'm following what you'd like, but I'd like to make sure before approaching development with it. As for Problem 2, I fully understand. Have you looked at the 'Number Prefix' column in the output? That has the number of the activity usage. What it doesn't have are all the parent numbers. So, 1.3.2, would be 2. This is because the activity usages can be reused in different workflows, with different parent numbers.
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