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March 4, 2020
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Identifying if a Custom Form is Attached to a Tasl

  • March 4, 2020
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Kevin: no answers, but I think it's worth noting we've discovered similar problems when searching for custom forms in (or rather, not in) templates. Here's a summary of everything we tried. "https://one.workfront.com/s/question/0D50z00006Px3YECAZ/" https://one.workfront.com/s/question/0D50z00006Px3YECAZ/ -skye
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New Participant
March 11, 2020
Interesting. As my troubleshooting capacity is limited and responses here are delayed, I would ask you to open a support request so we can dig in deeper into specifics for your instance. I would guess it's something as simple as syntax, but without access to your environment, it's hard to say. Our support reps can send a temporary request for logged access to your environment, so support would definitely be the route I'd suggest taking. Thanks and I hope everything works out! Dustin Martin Assigned Support Engineer Workfront
skyehansen
New Participant
March 9, 2020
Kevin: no answers, but I think it"s worth noting we"ve discovered similar problems when searching for custom forms in (or rather, not in) templates. Here"s a summary of everything we tried. https://one.workfront.com/s/question/0D50z00006Px3YECAZ/textmode-for-filtering-custom-form-in-template-report -skye
KevinQu1Author
New Participant
March 9, 2020
Dustin, I must really be missing the point (for which I apologize), because whenever I try to use Category ID it doesn"t work if:
  1. The task has multiple forms attached.
  2. The task I want to filter on (as in "if it contains this form, don"t show it to me") is not the first one on the list (properly filter it if it"s the first one, but not if it is the second one)
It"s like I need a "contains" but Category ID does not accept that conditional. My attempts to use your text mode... objectCategoriesMM:name=Test objectCategoriesMM:name_Mod=cinotcontains‚ Which in my case is: objectCategoriesMM:name=SYS objectCategoriesMM:name_Mod=cinotcontains‚ ...cause "Ooops!" failures. I have to imagine I"m missing some finer point in all this...
imgrund
Employee
March 9, 2020
This isn"t helpful from a filter point, but here is a column on use on some task and project reports to see which custom forms are attached so if I need to do a bulk edit, I know what is on all the tasks/projects. (It is also nice, because the name is hyperlinked and goes straight to the edit form. Great if you need people to fill things out on custom forms) displayname=Custom Forms On Task linkedname=direct namekey=category.name textmode=true tile.name=component.objectcategories valuefield=customFormsNames valueformat=HTML viewalias=category.name
New Participant
March 7, 2020
Interesting, Kevin... This is what my filters look like after some tweaking: https://share.getcloudapp.com/2NuBweg9 And this is what my data looks like.. keeping in mind not much of the data in my instance makes any sense as it's just random junk I've made for testing during the years: https://share.getcloudapp.com/7KuRPreD Thanks, and again.. Good luck with your reporting needs! Dustin Martin Assigned Support Engineer Workfront
kynabaker16
Employee
March 7, 2020
Hi Kevin, We will definitely make sure we pass this back to the support teams so we all have the same information... but in the meantime, I'm hoping you can get this working!
KevinQu1Author
New Participant
March 7, 2020
Well, when I created Dustin"s filter it gave the "Ooops!" error and I was forced to delete the filter through Setup » Interface » Filter to get things back to normal. Assuming for a moment this is something peculiar to our implementation though: Dustin needs to pass this along to the Support staff who seemed to be at a loss to help me, which is why I turned to the Community for answers.
Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
New Participant
March 6, 2020
Gorgeous, Dustin. Full marks. Regards, Doug Den Hoed - AtAppStore
New Participant
March 6, 2020
Really? Custom forms have 2 parts. Primary custom form = category Other custom form(s) = categories Here"s a filter you can use on a task report to show all tasks that do not have any custom form with the word "Test" in the name. objectCategoriesMM:name=Test objectCategoriesMM:name_Mod=cinotcontains‚ Good luck!
KevinQu1Author
New Participant
March 5, 2020
This is a trick that may come in handy for other things too...worked like a charm! Kevin Quosig