Assignments: Associate assignments with other table automatically?

[AlfredBaldenweck]

Hey all,

We're looking to set up a Workforce workflow and I have a few questions:

• Is it possible to assign assignments to a specific project?
  • Like, these points belong to Project A and these other points belong to Project B?
  • Crucially, all in the same Workforce Project.
• When creating an assignment from a feature, is it possible to copy attributes from the feature?
  • I'd like the actual feature information in the assignment, not just a random coordinate, which is what I'm getting right now.
• Or is it possible to just associate that feature to a larger project?

Basically what I'm trying to do is associate point features with a specific record in another table by using the Assignment functionality of workforce. Is this possible?

[JakeMatthys]

You can add additional columns to the Workforce schema.  For example, we have added a 'project_id' column to the schema and we expose that to the users via the 'description' column.  The 'description' value is a concatenation of the 'project_id' column and various other pieces of information.  The value for our users is that they can search by project ID via the search functionality because it works across the description value.  On the back end, we use the project_id column to drive reporting.  You could add additional columns to hold feature id or location information, the rub is that they have to be exposed to the user via one of the native columns that are leveraged by the application.