OpenDeploy on delete workflow

Using T.S. 6.5 sol.

My delete workflow logic is like this:
1. author selectsthe dcrs to be deleted
2. author chooses the delete workflow
3. the delete workflow first lock the dcrs and sent a email notification to approvers
4. approvers receive email and one of them takes the task and approves.
5. deletes the dcrs from the workarea using iwdeltaskfile
6. calls opendeploy to delete the dcrs in the target web server
7. submit to Staging area

It works perfect if the DCRs exist in Staging area. The OpenDeploy doesn’t delete the DCRs from the web server if the DCRs haven’t been pushed to Staging area. Any idea on how to solve this problem?

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

iwovGraduate

Using T.S. 6.5 sol.

My delete workflow logic is like this:
1. author selectsthe dcrs to be deleted
2. author chooses the delete workflow
3. the delete workflow first lock the dcrs and sent a email notification to approvers
4. approvers receive email and one of them takes the task and approves.
5. deletes the dcrs from the workarea using iwdeltaskfile
6. calls opendeploy to delete the dcrs in the target web server
7. submit to Staging area

It works perfect if the DCRs exist in Staging area. The OpenDeploy doesn’t delete the DCRs from the web server if the DCRs haven’t been pushed to Staging area. Any idea on how to solve this problem?

What is the source for your deployment? STAGING area or workarea? Would be helpful if you post the details of your deployment configuration. Perhaps you need do_deletes flag to be on.

Sailesh

won't it be better if you submit the deleted files first to staging and then delete the files from your target server?

Not a good idea to push files from workarea to target server.

Huan

We have to sometimes let the user push the DCRs from workarea to target web server. Our presentation layer is built out of TeamSite, which is a Java web application. There is a request that a user creates a new DCR and wants to preview what it exactly looks like in the web site. In this case, the DCR would be pushed to target preview web server, without being pushed to Staging area. If the user decides to delete it, he must use the delete workflow to delete the DCR in workarea, because we disabled the delete button in the UI.

Our business rule is to push the DCRs to Staging only if the DCRs have been approved by the approvers.

Icebreaker

Hi,

I could see 2 things here...

1. As iwovGraduate mentioned, check if the doDelete is on in your OpenDeploy Script.

2. When you do a Submit to Staging Area, try to submit with overwrite.

If its still not working, try this, but this is not a conventional way, but might solve your problem.

In your OpenDeploy external task, before calling the OpenDeploy, submit the file in the target web server and and call the OpenDeploy to delete the file from target Server.

Hope this try is worth it.

Regards,
Jay