Workflow Disabling Error

Antharix

Hello,

I have a requirement of disabling a workflow for specific category/datatype that resides in a branch containing many other peer datatypes.
Also the workflow needs to made available to all other datatypes in that branch including those in sub-branches.

I tried with the following configuration but have not been successful.

<template_file name='G1 Workflow' path='test/G1_Workflow.wft'>
<command_list>
<command value='tt_data' />
<command value='new_job' />
<command value='submit' />
<command value='all' include='no' />
</command_list>
<branch_list>
<branch value="/abc/ca/*/pal1/*" include="no" />
<branch value="/abc/ca/*/pal2/*" include="no" />
<branch value="/abc/ca/" include="yes" />
</branch_list>
</template_file>

Please Advice.

I am working on TS6.1 sp1 installed on Solaris 8 platform.

Adam Stoller

If you search the forums, you'll find that tt_data (the 'command' used to fire off a workflow from saving/closing an Edit DCR session) only provides branch-level information to the workflow system - and thus cannot be constrained by category/datatype ('new_job' and 'submit' generally *do* provide full area-path information though, and so *can* be so constrained).

There are a number of possible work-arounds but I believe they're all, at least slightly, convoluted and complex - essentially taking over the responsiblities of the workflow subsystem in order to offer a [refined] choice of options to the user - and then invoking the selected choice "as-if" it had been invoked in the first place. (you might find more details by searching the forums, but I'm not positive how much detail was ever posted)

I *think* the controls for doing this in 6.7 may finally be "fixed" so that all situations provide the full area-path instead of just the branch-path - but that's guesswork right now (haven't had a chance to verify it at all) - so you should still probably file a feature request with support if this is truly a requirement for you.

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