CGI task

Hi all,

Need help to clear my doubt about CGI task. Though I have gone through the workflow manual and sample cgi program I still couldn't discover how to pass the value of the fields from CGI program to workflow.

In my case, I have a drop down in cgi program and i need to pass the selected value (by user) to workflow in such a way so that this value can be set as workflow variable. Later on i need to pass this workflow variable to some other task in my workflow. It would be nice if somebody could provide me snippet of the code.

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kshitiz

In the CGI task only you can set the value to some workflow variable.

The tast ID of the CGI task is passed to the CGI through a HTTP variable. You can get the taskID value through:

sub TASK_PARAM () { "taskID" }

# Get the Task information
my $taskid = $cgi->{form}{&TASK_PARAM};
my $task = new TeamSite::WFtask($taskid);

Using $task you can get the workflow id.

my $wfid = $task->GetWorkflowID();
my $wf = new TeamSite::WFworkflow($wfid);
$wf->setVariable($name,$value);

I think this should do the trick.

Kshitiz Sharma
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Adam Stoller

sub TASK_PARAM () { "taskID" }

# Get the Task information
my $taskid = $cgi->{form}{&TASK_PARAM};
my $task = new TeamSite::WFtask($taskid); Why the use of TASK_PARAM ? also I don't believe that "taskID" is the correct value.

Actually, the code is more robust if you do something like:use TeamSite::CGI_lite;
my $cgi = TeamSite::CGI_lite->new();
my $taskid = $cgi->{form}{iw_taskid} || $cgi->{form}{task_id}; #=# (1)
$taskid = shift(@$taskid) if (ref($taskid) eq "ARRAY"); #=# (2)
my $task = new TeamSite::WFtask($taskid);
die "Something went wrong [$taskid] if (!$task->IsValid()); #=# (3)
my $job = new TeamSite::WFworkflow($task->GetWorkflowId()); #=# (4)
...
$job->setVariable($varname, $varvalue); #=# (5)
...
Notes:

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sachin_sharma78

Thanks a lot Adam and Kshitij. Its working now.