I'm trying to update the display name / request summary to something that's easy to understand to the approver. Their is currently no template meachanism to support this.I've tried to update the request's displayname in a workflow activity, however the update is in the request history but still the old hard to understand request summary is displayed.Then I figured out that the approval object has an attribute request, after which I tried to get the object using various query combination using wsenum. Without success.Being desperate, I decided to update the database directly, with success. IS THEIR ANOTHER WAY TO THIS? I Would prefer to do this using the normal platform service.

John,I would be careful about trying to modify request objects since every attempt to do anything in FIM is a request.As for retrieving the request object from the approval object: the request attribute is a reference to retrieve a request object linked to an approval object /Approval/Request -- would return all request objects linked to approval objects (request objects not linked to approval objects would not show up/Approval[ Approver=/Person[EmployeeType = 'Full Time Employee']]/Request -- All request objects linked to approval objects where the approver is of employeeType 'Full Time Employee'/Approval[Request=/Request[CreatedTime= subtract-dayTimeDuration-from-dateTime(xs:dayTimeDuration("P2DT0H"), current-dateTime())] and Approver=/Person[EmployeeType = 'Full Time Employee']]/Request -- This is just the like the one above plus it will limit the requests to those made in the last two days (I can't recall if thexs:dayTimedDuration is needed or not)As for updating the database directly -- please don't do that. Definitely unsupported and likely to break things, such as your desire to be able to show auditors that all changes come through as requests.David Lundell www.ilmBestPractices.com