Sorting and Filtering Work Lists

There are a number of WorkListService operations that are used to define the sort and/or filter criteria to be applied to a work item list.

They are:

getWorkItemOrderFilter (Request message)—Get the fields defined by BRM that can be used to define sort/filter criteria for a work item list.
setResourceOrderFilterCriteria (Request message)—Set sort/filter criteria for work lists for a resource.
getResourceOrderFilterCriteria (Request message)—Get (previously defined) sort/filter criteria for work lists for a resource.

These expressions can include an expression defining the sort and/or filter criteria to be applied to the work list. The following operations, used to retrieve work lists, can also include the same expressions:

getWorkListItems (Request message)—Get a work list for an organization model entity.
getAllocatedWorkListItems (Request message)—Get an allocated work list for an organization model entity.

The syntax and criteria for sort/filter expressions is the same for each of these operations.

The default sort criteria, used to display a work list if no other sort is specified, are defined by the defaultSort property in the brm.properties file. See "Configuring TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM Resource Management" in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM - BPM Administration for this property.