Access Comments on workflow transitions with Scripts

[avirobbins]

I would like to be able to access the comments on the workflow transition to include in an email notification via scripting.  Is this data accessible via scripting?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello,

item.workflowActions[i].comments should allow access to comments placed on a workflow action.

[avirobbins]

Thanks Eric, so does 'i' represent the workflow action step that you want the comment from?

[avirobbins]

I’m trying to access the workflow comments in a script that fires on the transition to send an email.  I want to put these comments into the email.  I have the code to access the comments item.workflowActions[i].comments (thanks Eric) and can get the comments, however it appears that the script fires before the comments are “saved” to this location.  If I hard code in the action step I can use the comments from the previous transition but if I try to send comments from the current transition I get a blank/null result.  Any ideas?

[ThomasRambach]

Looks like this is still non-functional after 4 years. Any ideas?

[john.denner]

Has been working fine for me for a little over a year. I have a process that emails out the last transitions comment. Has worked every time for me.

Can you share your script?

[aaron.orange]

I am attempting to do the same thing. I can only access the comments if i hard code the transition step. Can you share your script?

[john.denner]

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but array element 0 (zero) is that last transition. It's always zero which is pretty helpful. So you'd want to check if the comment is populated and if that's true then do some cool stuff. 🙂

if (item.workflowActions[0].comments) {
    // Do cool stuff
}

If comments is populated then it results in true and does cool stuff.

If you need to get a specific comment from a specific workflow transition, it's possible but takes a few more lines of code to step through the workflowActions and test the comment against a string value or with a regex expression. Totally doable though.