Workflow plugin variable $state is not being expanded in SEARCH results

I am using the following SEARCH command to report all my documents which are controlled by the WorkflowPlugin.

%SEARCH{ type="query" "preferences[name='WORKFLOW' AND value='ESPDocApprovalWorkflow']" excludetopic="%TOPIC%" nonoise="on" format="| $topic |$state| $username |"}%

The search results look line

FuncSpecExample1

$state

philip

Why is $state not expanded as defined in the plugin documentation? The plugin perl indicates that it is implemented and topic and username are working.

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I've never used WorkflowPlugin, but it seems that $state token is only understood by the macros provided with that plugin, not the core SEARCH macro.

You might be able to use a delayed VarQUERY macro to do the same thing, however. I'm not sure I fully understand how META:WORKFLOW is used (assumption is that its name attribute is the $state value), something like (untested):

%SEARCH{
  "preferences[name='WORKFLOW' AND value='ESPDocApprovalWorkflow']"
  type="query" 
  excludetopic="%TOPIC%"
  nonoise="on"
  format="| $topic | $percntQUERY{'$web.$topic'/META:WORKFLOW.name}$percnt | $username |"
}%

-- PaulHarvey - 18 Aug 2011