Submit when any files are not selected.What does it do

Hi,

I am using Teamsite6.5. I have a small doubt in the workflow.When i pressed submit button without any files selected.I am able to create workflow.What does this empty workflow do.Is there any way to validate whether user has selected any file or not.

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kaalraa

Hi,
I am using Teamsite6.5. I have a small doubt in the workflow.When i pressed submit button without any files selected.I am able to create workflow.What does this empty workflow do.Is there any way to validate whether user has selected any file or not.
Kindly adivse
Thanks

Just try to customize the default submit workflow. Be sure you customize the correct workflow. It can be author submit or default submit.

Migrateduser

Is there any way to validate whether user has selected any file or not.

If you want to check the above, then fetch the files attached to the task/job using the function getFiles(); provided in WFTask.pm .

something like:

@attachedFiles= $job->getFiles();
($job is the object created for the corresponding job id)
If the above array is empty, it implies that there are no files attached to the workflow and you can flash any error message to the user, using 'die' stmt.

-Dixit

Adam Stoller

If you want to check the above, then fetch the files attached to the task/job using the function getFiles(); provided in WFTask.pm .

something like:

@attachedFiles= $job->getFiles();
($job is the object created for the corresponding job id)
If the above array is empty, it implies that there are no files attached to the workflow and you can flash any error message to the user, using 'die' stmt.

-Dixit

Actually, unless the behavior has changed at some point and I missed (or forgot about) it, if you don't select any files (and are in CCPro, not sure about CCStd) then TeamSite will look for all modified files within the current directory and its sub-directories, and automatically add them to the workflow as-if they had been pre-selected.

So testing to see if

@attachedFiles

is empty will only validate that no files were pre-selected and that no modified files were found starting from the current directory.

The behavior may be different if one starts from a View > Modified listing and doesn't pre-select anything (not sure, haven't tried).

You might be able to process the files that appear to be pre-selected and make sure that all, or at lease one, of the files was last-modified-by the current user (iw_user) - on the basis that nobody should be submitting (only) work that they themseleves did not edit - but this is one of those things that might work on Unix and not-work on Windows due to the way Windows has a habit of marking everything as being last-modified-by System.

This is all assuming that you are explicitly adding pre-selected files to the start task of the workflow.

If not, and you intend to promt the user to select files after instantiation (with a cgitask or some such) at that point you can verify if they've selected anything - however this tends to be a more complex and/or less appealing (to end-user) process.

Migrateduser

Thank you Guys for your replies.

Migrateduser

Actually, unless the behavior has changed at some point and I missed (or forgot about) it, if you don't select any files (and are in CCPro, not sure about CCStd) then TeamSite will look for all modified files within the current directory and its sub-directories, and automatically add them to the workflow as-if they had been pre-selected.

Thanks for the insight, actually i didn't come across this thing. Maybe this condition occurs when you run the Submit workflow after you have listed the modified files in the CCPRO.

What happens when a person initiaites a New Content workflow? I had a problem in this. I was trying to initiate a custom written configurable workflow through New Job without selecting a single file and i got an error saying Invalid Workflow couldn't find the vpath. This error didn't appear when i selected a file and then tried to initiate the workflow.

-Dixit

Adam Stoller

Thanks for the insight, actually i didn't come across this thing. Maybe this condition occurs when you run the Submit workflow after you have listed the modified files in the CCPRO.

What happens when a person initiaites a New Content workflow? I had a problem in this. I was trying to initiate a custom written configurable workflow through New Job without selecting a single file and i got an error saying Invalid Workflow couldn't find the vpath. This error didn't appear when i selected a file and then tried to initiate the workflow.

-Dixit

The original post talked about the Submit button - and I believe my statement about all modified files being included if nothing is selected is still true.

You are now talking about New Job - where yes, if nothing is pre-selected, nothing is added. What you're talking about now is, I believe, covered in [thread=13635]this thread[/thread] - it was a bug that was introduced and subsequently fixed in a patch.

Migrateduser

The original post talked about the Submit button - and I believe my statement about all modified files being included if nothing is selected is still true.

You are now talking about New Job - where yes, if nothing is pre-selected, nothing is added. What you're talking about now is, I believe, covered in [thread=13635]this thread[/thread] - it was a bug that was introduced and subsequently fixed in a patch.

Thanks Ghoti for the Input!
I will have a look again at the Submit workflow thing.

-Dixit