When a workflow participant or Tracker opens a work item that is displayed in a User Inbox, a pop-up window opens in the browser. This window contains either the Step Processor user interface page or a Tracker page. For example, a workflow participant might select a step assignment from a User Inbox.
For a description of how the correct Step Processor is selected for display, see Algorithm Used for Opening a Step Processor. For how the URL for the Step Processor UI is supplied to the Web application, see Supplying the URL for a Step Processor.
You can display the deadline status of a work item to the user. Use VWQueueElement.getStepDeadlineStatus() to obtain the work item's status. Use VWQueueElement.getLockedStatus() to determine the work item's lock status.
When a Tracker application is launched, a corresponding URL is constructed in a manner similar to a Step assignment, as follows:
An example of a completed URL, is as follows:
http://your _server/Workplace/eprocess/WcmTracker.jsp? queueName=Tracker&wobNum=FA3454543AD231FDD3453&setWindowId=mainWindow
where Workplace is the Web application, eprocess is the parent directory and WcmTracker.jsp is the Tracker application's (View) JSP page.