bug dynamicklink task not yet accepted

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Hello, 
 
 I have seen that if you use a dynamiclinks in a form, users can interact with them even if a form is assigned to a group and the user doesn't has accepeted it. 
 
 I think that this is a major bug because dynamic link is used also in gridlayout to add/remove rows. 
 
 Is Appian working to solve this bug or has someone find a workaround?

Vinay Katta · Accepted Answer

No, that is not possible. I tested the same scenario. I copy pasted this below editable grid to a user input task form: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.1/recipe_add_edit_and_remove_data_in_an_inline_editable_grid.html and assigned it to a group. I logged in and clicked dynamic link twice, added two rows... from there I'm assuming you just click on Tasks tab again or leave it without accepting task. Checked with another user login... it's not reflecting at all. Appian did not allow any changes to be reflected here. There is no issue/bug here, I request you to please replicate this once and let me know.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

I believe the solution to this use case is rather simple. Create a rule input i.e. ri!taskOwner, and in the user input task configuration, configure that input to accept tp!owner , which will not populate until a user accepts the task. 
 Then, in the local variables definition, set up a chain of variables (depending on how robust you need/want it to be) - i would suggest starting with local!isAccepted: not(isnull(ri!taskOwner)), followed at least by local!enableDynamicLinks: and( local!isAccepted, local!otherConditions /* etc */ ), and then for all dynamic links on the form, use (or at least include) local!enableDynamicLinks to set whether the links show up at all.

bug dynamicklink task not yet accepted

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