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Was it Submit or New Job

chuckles

Is it possible to tell from within a <template_script> if a workflow was started by clicking "Submit" or "New Job"? I have a workflow that I want to zip straight through on submit, but give extra TAG_info options if they go through the Actions > New Job menu. Any ideas?

TS 6.5 SP1
Sol 9

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jbonifaci

There are several tags that are unique to submit workflows. You can check for the existence of one of these and if it is there, it is a submit workflow, if not it's a new job. You can probably find a list in the manual, but I believe iw_areaowner and iw_workarea are unique to a submit job. You'll have to play with it and see.

~Jeff

Adam Stoller

iw_workarea should exist in either type of job - depending upon the context (not the manner) in which a job was launched.
If you launch a job from the Workflow tab (CCPro) or main portal page (CCStd new_job, a submit should have it though) - iw_workarea is not set (or empty).
If you launch a job from the Content tab (CCPro) or customize the navigation pages (CCStd) - iw_workarea should be set regardless of whether it was new_job or subit.

The documentation, unfortunately, is a bit confusing about this page 77 supports the above, while page 122 indicated that iw_workarea (iw_branch, and iw_areaowner) only get set on submit.

I'm less sure of iw_areaowner (as I haven't had to use it any time recently) - theoretically it should be the same as iw_workarea (if you have one, you should have the other) - but it's a bit more possible that it's restricted to submit operations.

What would be nice, but I don't believe it exists, is an 'iw_command' variable that could be referenced within the wft. This might make a good feature request...

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

chuckles

Documentation is pretty confusing. Page 122 refers to clicking New Job from the workflow tab only. If you select a file in the workarea and select Action > New Job, then the variables are set exactly the same as if you had just clicked Submit. Seems like there is no way to tell the difference. I will open a case and see if I can get a workaround or feature request.

chuckles

So, my support ticket was evidently filed under the folder marked /dev/null, but I have solved the problem myself with a reasonably safe hack. Basically, you just need to look at the HTTP referer to see which CCPro URL got you here. Not sure how this would go for CCStd (we don't use it). Here goes:


use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new();
my $referer = $cgi->referer();
if ($referer =~ /new_job/) {
  # this was action > new job
} elsif ($referer =~ /submit/) {
  # this was a submit
} else {
  # something else?
}