Visual Annotate at begining of workflow

The scenario of our workflow is:
A document contributor or editor submit the updated document to the reviewer and reviewer deploy the document.
The scenario is quite straight forward, but the document editor must indicate what they has updated in the document. We think if this can be resolved by using Visual Annotate. The document editor will use the VA to indicate the updated part and then submit it.
As I know the VA can be used in the review task. How can the VA be used in the begining of the workflow.
Thanks for help !

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Sailesh

You don't have to do anything special for calling VA, if you have installed it, it would automatically be invoked.

It is a client tool for which user would be prompt for to install.

All you have to do is to configure with the your workflow.

Migrateduser

The scenario of our workflow is:
A document contributor or editor submit the updated document to the reviewer and reviewer deploy the document.
The scenario is quite straight forward, but the document editor must indicate what they has updated in the document. We think if this can be resolved by using Visual Annotate. The document editor will use the VA to indicate the updated part and then submit it.
As I know the VA can be used in the review task. How can the VA be used in the begining of the workflow.
Thanks for help !

I have not tried this solution, so not sure if this works or not.

1. Editor uses VA to annotate the update changes to the document before starting the workflow.
2. Starts the workflow using the annotated files.
3. Use the standard review cycle to route the document throught the review cycle.

helloworld

I have not tried this solution, so not sure if this works or not.

1. Editor uses VA to annotate the update changes to the document before starting the workflow.
2. Starts the workflow using the annotated files.
3. Use the standard review cycle to route the document throught the review cycle.

For the point 3, how to route the document throught the review cycle?

I have a idea, don't know if it works. I try to get the servlet url of "Review" button and use a cgi-task to pop up the page that link to that url. Hope this can trigger the VA.

Thanks for comment !

Migrateduser

For the point 3, how to route the document throught the review cycle?

I have a idea, don't know if it works. I try to get the servlet url of "Review" button and use a cgi-task to pop up the page that link to that url. Hope this can trigger the VA.

Thanks for comment !

You can use the out of box example code to achive it see __IW_HOME__/local/config/wft/solutions/configurable_author_assignment.wft workflow.