[OGo-Developer] referredPerson in tasks

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> while working on getting the extended Task attributes to work, I stumbled 
> across the referredPerson, that can be enabled via a Default, unfortunately 
> in the code I only found a lot of TODO: document ;)
> For me it seems, this feature is intended to be able to open a task, on 
> behalf of a different person, like a helpdesk would do, and then save it in 
> the obj_properties table in the database. Is this feature supposed to work?

No;  I'm pretty sure this feature is incomplete.  It does save the
attribute (I believe) but later it shows up very oddly - I tested this
feature one but can't find my notes now.

> I enabled the Default, but in the LSWJobEditor.m method, where it decided 
> whether to show the Collapsible or not, it evaluates self->referredPerson, 
> and if it is empty, then the collapsible is not shown. 
> As it is always empty when I want to create task, and later on editing, I 
> wonder, how was/is it intended to set the referredPerson? 

If I recall correctly you could do something when the task was created.
It was so worthless I removed the documentation from WMOGAG and now I
can't find the snippet. :(

> Or was this just 
> not implemented, if so, I'd go add this, as I think it might be useful.
> I'd add sth. comparable as it is done for the executant selection, so, any 
> objections on that?

I'd *really* like this feature as we have people (help-desk-esque) open
tasks on behalf of others and we have to sneak around and change the
executant.  But my preference would be to allow a certain cast of users
to create an executant with a creator other than themselves.
Unfortunately OGo doesn't have a role mechanism so you'd have to create
a new "internal" team akin to "news editors" or "team creators".