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cgitask immediate and job owner

DavidMusser

I see from the docs that in order to have the cgitask start immediatly the job owner has to be the same as the task owner for a start task or the task owner has to be the same owner of a previous user or group task

So my question is can i have a start task of a usertask with a timeout of zero... this way the cgi task would start?

Basically I want a user to do the following in ccpro in 6.5.

1. Submit a file.
2. SetMetadata cgi starts.
3. User enters metadata, saves and closed
4. Workflow transitions to reviewer step for approval.

Currently to have this working I have to have the owner of the workflow set as the same owner of the cgi task, and it does work this way. Unfortunatly working this way allows the user to approve or reject at the step eventhough they don't own the task.

SO will the following work? and if not is there a way to do this?

1. Submit a file.
1a. Transition to a start task of a user task with a zero timeout owned by the user who owns the setmetadata task.
2. SetMetadata cgi starts immediatly
3. User enters metadata, saves and closed
4. Workflow transitions to reviewer step for approval.

If not has this been done another way by anyone? Using perhaps an external task to change the owner of the workflow after the setmetadata task?
Take care
David.

David R Musser
Eye Street Software
540-542-5257
dmusser@eyestreet.com
Win2k, TS 6.5 SP1, OD 6.01

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jbonifaci

No, this won't work. So your main problem with how it is working is that the person that kicks off the job is the job owner? If you want to avoid that and still have the metadata cgi as the start task, you could have the cgitask immediately followed by an externaltask that changes the job owner.

~Jeff

DavidMusser

I thought of that so in the gui I changed the owner when it went to the reviewer task but after the rejection it just went to space... no active tasks. I think that's cause the edit task and metadata task still follow each other.... os correct me if i'm wrong but most likely I need to change it between the metadata and the reviewer and then on rejection back again?

take care
David

David R Musser
Eye Street Software
540-542-5257
dmusser@eyestreet.com
Win2k, TS 6.5 SP1, OD 6.01

Adam Stoller

Try using an iwat trigger - that fires off on the event of a task going active; in the script verify that the task that went active is this "transitional usertask" which is owned by iw_user (if not, gracefully exit); if it is, then do an iwtaskselect to perform the transition (I believe you need to use iwtaskselect and not iwcallback - for a usertask) and if the cgitask follows the usertask and is owned by the same user as the usertask and has the immediate="t" attribute set - I believe it will work.

I'll leave it to you to research how to write and instantiate the iwat script - should take you less than 1/2 a day to get it working.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com