Modification of document by workflow

Why do you want to change the package the document is attached to? If the users have permissions on the document they can modify it.

If you want to modify the document, yo can do so in the autoactivity and replace the original document in the package with the modified one.

Oh, i see it was a mistake. Thank you.

By how can i call a document form package in autoactivity and put modificated variant back?

The best way is granting write or version permit to all members who will work on them. Then when you send the documents to them every individual has the option to modify or to create new versions. Documentum checkin/checkuot and versioning capabilities will take care if the rest of the work. Not a big challenge.

Imran,

I don't want users know anything about algorithm of modification of the document. Users shouldn't modificate it by themselves. Everything should be made by my class. But I don't know how to call document from it.

Use this as reference:


IDfCollection packageCollection = workitem.getPackages(null);

while (packageCollection != null && packageCollection.next ()) {

if (packageCollection.getString("r_package_name").equalsIgnoreCase(your_package_name)){
  IDfSysObject obj=(IDfSysObject)ses.getObject(packageCollection.getId("r_component_id"));
  //do your stuff with the document
  
  //replace the doc
  //newObject is a new object with the new document as content
  //IDfPackage pck = (IDfPackage)ses.getObject (new DfId (packageCollection.getString("r_object_id")));
    
    IDfId id= new DfId(m_newObjectId);
    IDfList listPck = new DfList();
    listPck.append(id);
    workitem.addPackage(package_name, package_type, listPck);                
}

}

Did I mention algorithm? Why are your trying to copy package0 to package1? What if your workflow has 100 documents, will you create 100 packages? You can use process data mapping activity template and simply map the r_object_id of pakage0 to package1. No custom code is needed.

Imran, Thank you for your attention and advices.

Alvaro told that I doesn't need package1 and I agreed that it was a mistake.

And I have already told that I need to modify a document by my own needs and I don't want users to know about how it happens.

Alvaro, thank you for code, I will try to use it.

Alvaro, thank you for your example of code, but I have one more question about it.

What is workitem and ses?

Is it incoming variables? Where should it be declared?

Please don't be angry that I ask stupid questions and answer as full as possible.

Thank you.

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Alvaro, thank you for your help. But I need to ask a new question. One moment is not clear for me.

"3. Create the method object to reference this method. Specify:

Type: java
Command verb: java

For methods implementing IDmMethod and executed by the Java Method Server, it is a good practice to specify the fully-qualified class name of the Java class as the command verb. If your class is contained with a jar file then you must specify the fully-qualified class name. For example;com.documentum.bpm.bpsintegration.bps.DmBPSHTTPIntegration"

How can I do it?

I found an istruction and tried to follow it, but there is no any result. Auto Activity in workflow doesn't see my method.

at page 7.

Please, could you help me with this question? May be it doesn't work here and I should do everything in another way?

Delete Process Builder/Workflow manager cache so it ges refreshed. If you can see the method defined in DA but you don't see it in the clients, it is due to a cache problem.

You know, in reality I can see more than 100 methods in DA. But when i make auto-Activity I can choose 1 of 8 methods. May be there are special flag for visibility from workflow template manager?

You only see methods that have the attribute a_special_app with the value of "Workflow" (this is what you get when you check "This is a workflow method" in the method properties).