6.1 Workflow Permissions

Jeremy

Hi,

I am in the process of doing some testing to upgrade our 5.5.2 Win2K system to 6.1 Win2K.
I have set up the branches with the correct permissions as on the current system.
So we'll have a User A who has access to the config branch and the content branch and then a User B who only has access to the content branch.

Now I come to test the Workflows to see if they are running. Part of the workflow instantiation form is to read files from the config branch. This configuration branch has permissions set for only User A to access.
I run the workflow as User A and it populates the Instantiation Form as required with the corect values. This is good.

I then log in as User B who does not have access to the config branch, but the user is a Master. I try to run the workflow but the fields in the instantiation form are not populated.
After much debuging it seems that this is down to a permissions problem.
I tried logging into the local machine as User B and ran the following script:

#!C:/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl.exe

print "Starting\n";
$iw_workarea = 'Y:/default/main/mywyeth_emea_global/STAGING/WORKFLOWCONFIG/mywyeth_uk/uk_template_map.cfg';

open MINE, $iw_workarea or $temp = "could not open : $!\n";
while ( <MINE> )
{
print "$_";
}
print "$temp :: end $iw_workarea";

This returns on the command line the following result :

C:\iw-home\local\bin>debug.ipl
Starting
could not open : Permission denied :: end Y:/default/main/mywyeth_emea_global/STAGING/WORKFLOWCONFIG/mywyeth_uk/uk_template_map.cfg

However this same script runs perfectly when logged in as User A.

Does anyone know if Workflow now runs as the User starting the job? This worked fine with no problems on 5.5.2 SP6.

If you can give me a RTFM it would be great too.

Thanks,
Jeremy

Jeremy

Ok so I have created a very simple workflow - just a simple workflow that moves files around (I know it works) since this part is really irrelevant.
In the begining part of the WF I put in some code that would open a config file, read it and write it to a log file.
This works fine on 5.5.2 but will not work on 6.1 saying "Permission Denied".

It really does look like the way this works has changed.
Anyone know of any work around for now?

Thanks.