parallel transistion

Has anyone had any luck setting card variables for "user" AND "date" in parallel transitions? I'm trying to setup a parallel transition for seven (7) departments to sign-off on ECR notifications. I can set the user's name or the date the user signed-off but NOT both. This parallel transition is using group permissions and only one user from each group needs to sign-off. Unfortunately, the user will not always be the same person for various reasons. To do this the old fashion way would create 3 versions for each sign-off; that's 21 additional versions with no change to the file itself. Not to mention the 100+ tests for user names and what group the user belongs to. Not good.

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