Problem

when a job is created the option "Can see changes of preceding workflow steps:" does not show the wanted behaviour. Currently it behaves like the option "Can see changes of all workflow steps:" which means that the user can see ALL changes or not. No matter if they are made in a previous step of the workflow-chain or in a step that comes later.

How to reproduce the problem. Create a simple task.

Assign a translator, a reviewer and a "Second review" user. All this user should only have the option "Can see changes of preceding workflow steps:" enabled and the other two option NOT enabled.
Now enter the task as translator, make changes and finish the translation step. The do the same with the other 2 users for "review" and "second review".

After that, task should look something like that:

This is what is expected after that:

• translator should only see his changes.
• reviewer should only see his changes and the ones made by translator
• second reviewer should see all changes, because he is the last in line

And this is the current behaviour:

all user can see all changes.

When option "Can see changes of preceding workflow steps:" is disabled for a user, he can see no more changes at all. This is correct, or at least not completely wrong. What about his own changes !?!

Solution

in current state this option is useless (equals to "Can see changes of all workflow steps:").
So either remove it or fix it.