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add file to task

sunsun

Can any one help

I am trying to make a workflow

The administrator starts the workflow and selects an author.
The author attaches a file(from anywhere in his system) to the task and sends for review
The administrator reviews the file and either rejects and sends for attachment again or approves and the workflow ends.

I am attaching the codefiles.
The first task calls a CGI task that allows user to attach a file from his system.

ERROR: It does not attach any files to the task ie after the file is submitted by the author, it does not show in the next task sent to the administrator(the review task) for his approval.

TS6.5 Windows 2003

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sunsun

here is the workflow file.
all the tasks are transitioning properly so there should not be any problem with this file.

nipper

The author attaches a file(from anywhere in his system) to the task and sends for review

So this is a CGI that copies the file up from a local system to a Workarea ?

Is the file showing up ?

Are you running the command to attach the file to the job after ?

sunsun

Thanks for your reply

So this is a CGI that copies the file up from a local system to a Workarea ?
actually the cgi task lets user get the whole path of the file. if you will see the code in the perl file u will see that its just a plain browse button.

Is the file showing up ?
the file shows up in the browser menu and after i select it and the workflow tranistions to the review task, he does not see any attached files.

Are you running the command to attach the file to the job after ?
ya after the job is started by the administrator to get the file from the author, i want author to attach the files in the attach task fil for which i am using
$task->AddFile('$filepath','some comments'); where $filepath can have a value like C:/x/y/readme.txt

my whole idea of this workflow is to let the administrator ask for any file from any author.

nipper

The addfile command needs to be something like

$task->AddFile('Y:\default\main\branch/WORKAREA\workarea\foo.html', 'Comments, who needs comments');

sunsun

does it mean i can not make any person attach any file from any other place other than a teamsite workarea?

please elaborate.

and also i tried to give some file path relative to the workarea as told in the documentation like
WORKAREA/teamsiteexamples/templatedata/intranet/organization/readme.txt but it didnt work.
I am not working on the server and am using a client machine to connect to the server having TS installed. So can not use the Y drive directly instead the path would start like
//acc-iw/default/main/Examples/WORKAREA/teamsiteexamples/templatedata/intranet/tanikorganization

nipper

Yes the file needs to be in the workarea associated to the job in question. It will need to be
uploaded to the server then attached.

sunsun

i hard coded the path but stil not working

//ServerName/default/main/Examples/WORKAREA/teamsiteexamples/templatedata/intranet/organization/readme.txt

nipper

check the docs, the file may be inside the WA assigned to the task. i.e.

templatedata/intranet/organization/readme.txt

sunsun

do u mean the file attached to the task would show up in the workarea and not as an attachment?

nipper

no the file must first be copied to the workarea,
then you run the AddFile command to attach that
file to the job in process

sunsun

I am right now trying to attach a file from a workarea by hard coding the file path but it is still not showing me if the file has been attached or not.

please advice.

NOTE: No i am trying to add a workarea file through the cgi task but it is not showing me the attached file

jbonifaci

From the perldoc:
AddFile($path, $comment)
Adds a file with comment to a task.

Path and comment should be specified in UTF-8 encoding.

Paths should be specified with respect to root of task areavpath (no
leading slash).

Returns zero on error, non-zero if successful.~Jeff

Adam Stoller

To summarize - here's what you need to do:

Allow the user to browse for a file on their local machine
Once the file is selected - copy the file to the appropriate location in the workarea associated with the job
- I recommend using CGI.pm over TeamSite::CGI_lite for this, since the latter does not deal well with the <input type="file"> directive - see this thread and the link reference that is included within it.
Once the file has been copied to a known location within the workarea associated with the workflow, you add the file to the task using the $task->AddFile() directive.
- The first paramater is the area-relative path to the file, the second parameter is the comment to be associated with the file - e.g.
  $task->AddFile("somedir/somefile", "File uploaded as part of job ".$task->GetWorkflowId());

Okay?

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

sunsun

thanks fish. i will try to do it that way