OR and AND Tasks

Bhargav Coca

I am on 6.5 sp2 on win 2k. I am using some workflows out of the box, I know some instances where we can use OR and AND while stating the successors and predecessors.

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My question is if i take a workflow out of the box which define "link_tasks" how can i define two predecessors and tow sucessors for jobs?
For Example

link_tasks('review1','no_deploy_email2',"Approve");
link_tasks('review1','no_deploy_emailmike',"Approve");
Please Advice.
Thank you

Adam Stoller

I am on 6.5 sp2 on win 2k. I am using some workflows out of the box, I know some instances where we can use OR and AND while stating the successors and predecessors. ... My question is if i take a workflow out of the box which define "link_tasks" how can i define two predecessors and tow sucessors for jobs? For Example link_tasks('review1','no_deploy_email2',"Approve"); link_tasks('review1','no_deploy_emailmike',"Approve"); Please Advice. Thank you

Have you read the perldoc for TeamSite::WFConstructor?

If you want review1 to be able to go to either no_deploy_email2 or no_deploy_emailmike (two possible transitions) - your above code will work.

If you want review1 to have a single successorset that goes to both no_deploy_email2 and no_deploy_emailmike - then you need to do a few other things.

To make the activation of the succeeding task wait for both of those tasks to be completed would be something like:

declare_task("after_email",
             name            => "TaskAfterEmail",
             ...
conjunction     => TRUE,
    );

To make the activation of the succeeding task wait for either of those tasks to be completed would be something like:

 declare_task("after_email",
             name            => "TaskAfterEmail",
             ...
conjunction     => FALSE,    # wait for either predecessor before activating
    );

I believe the default is FALSE

To make the preceeding task have multiple successors for a single successorset you have to do something like this:

declare_task("review1",
             name            => "FirstReview",
             ...
    );
declare_task("and",
             name            => "AND",
type            => "logical,
             ...
    );
declare_task("no_deploy_email2",
             name            => "Email2",
             ...
    );
declare_task("no_deploy_emailmike",
             name            => "EmailMike",
             ...
    );
link_tasks("review1", "and", "done");
link_tasks("and", "no_deploy_email2", "part1");
link_tasks("and", "no_deploy_emailmike", "part2");

Note: I don't have a system to verify this on right now - but I believe the above is either correct - or close enough to correct that you should be able to figure it out from there.