Show Custom List Data in Approval Task

Question

I have created a travel approval site where the user types in their data and a workflow creates an approval task for each manager as it moves along. The task "Workflow Task (SharePoint 2013)", shows the basic task information but management wants the task page to also show data from the list as well.They would also like the manager to have the ability to type in notes on the task page that the employee will see once the task is approved/denied.

I am able to include the information they want in the email that is sent out via the task process but when the task page come up those columns are blank. If data is typed into those fields it also does not save. I don't quite understand the "Look up for String" box even after watching numerous videos and reading a few help pages. I am sure it is something simple to import/save this data but I cannot seem to figure it out.

I would like to avoid using JS if possible to gather this information.

This is the email that is sent out via the task and the fields they want to see on the task page.

Thank you, Steve

Answer 1

I took what @Melad Francis stated above and ended up having to:

• Pause for 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes then
• "Set Variable: Comments to Association: Task List:Comments. Then
• I put in an Update list item to update the comments field with the variable comments.
• After, that adding in the variable:comments to the email worked fine.

Answer 2

To add a comment into mail body you need to Add a lookup inside it you will configure it like this

this will give you a ability to write a comment and send it to Task-Travel creater

Hope this would help you :)