Hello,

I have a Forms process where a user submits a form initially, and then a subsequent user task that gets assigned to someone else has a series of fields that are filled by lookup rules and calculations. This user task has a timer catch on it, where if the task isn't completed within a certain amount of time, it just skips this user task and moves on to the next step. This all works fine.

However, the form fields populated by the lookup rules contain data that gets written to a SQL table for reporting later. If the timer catch event runs and the user task isn't completed by the user, the these form fields are empty. Which makes sense to me - they wouldn't populate unless the form was opened and the fields were given the opportunity to populate.

There is no input required by the user at this step - the lookups and calculations populate based on the data filled out by the user who started the process. I'm thinking I need to have these same lookups occur on the starting form and just hide these fields from the initial user - that way the form is submitted with those values so I have them if the next user task expires and doesn't get completed. Is that the best method for something like this?

Thanks!