Visual Annotate disabled?

I'd enabled Visual Annotate in the workflow configuration (configurable_author_assignment.cfg) with the following setting:

##
## VisualAnnotate
##

# email templates
va_reviewer_email_header_template=/vannotate/templates/va_mailheader_reviewer.tpl
va_reviewer_email_body_template=/vannotate/templates/va_mailbody_reviewer.tpl
va_reviewer_email_text_body_template=/vannotate/templates/text/va_mailbody_reviewer_text.tpl
va_author_email_header_template=/vannotate/templates/va_mailheader_author.tpl
va_author_email_body_template=/vannotate/templates/va_mailbody_author.tpl
va_author_email_text_body_template=/vannotate/templates/text/va_mailbody_author_text.tpl

# Should the initiator be prompted to confirm or change these
# choices when initiating a job?
# If yes, the value of va_enabled will serve as the default.
va_enabled=yes
ask_va_enabled=no

# Setting this property to yes will enable a non-VA-enabled job
# to keep track of review cycles.  (All VA-enabled jobs automatically
# keep track of review cycles, regardless of the value of the property.)
review_cycles=no

# VisualAnnotate variables
va_show_cycles=all
va_show_snapshots=all
va_show_reviewers=all
va_create_snapshots=unlimited
va_default_page=snapshot
va_show_live_option=true
va_which_snapshot=last
va_show_save_button=true

1.) Editor assign a task to an author
2.) Author finishing the task create a content
3.) Editor clicks file -> Review, and the Visual Annotate is disabled.

did I configured anything wrong? please advise. Thank you.

TeamSite 6.5 SP2
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1

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ISCBorisB

You still have to configure iw.cfg, take a look here. Note that Article's items #2 and #3 relate to obsolete(5.5) "configurable Author Assignment",
they are useful though to understand what *should* happen in wft as a result of your configurational changes

Note also that in iw.cfg 'va_enabled=true' is a must, 'image harvest' and 'support mail' are optional, the rest of VA variables can be set in either iw.cfg or WF
configuration (I've actaully commented them out in iw.cfg)

waikong

Yes, I did set my iw.cfg to the following value:


[visualannotate]
va_enabled=true
harvest_images=false
va_support_email=icaredamin@vivian.tm.com.my

but it still doesn't work.
is there anything I miss out?

ISCBorisB

Yes, I did set my iw.cfg to the following value:
[visualannotate]
va_enabled=true
harvest_images=false
va_support_email=icaredamin@vivian.tm.com.my
but it still doesn't work.
is there anything I miss out?

- Please note that

- If you generate Pages dynamically with jsp, asp, xslt and whatnot you'll have to create and (re)generate HTML Pages in some sort of HTML Cache for Annotation. You can do that from PT (directly or as a service request), from some iwat Event handler or perhaps simply as dedicated WF Task. An idea is to make http requests yourself and store resulting html as a File. Details can be nasty though.- Finally, make sure that you are using VA controls for the tasks within Visual Annotate review cycle. To figure it out, get WF XML and look for tasks *between* 'start_review_cycle' and 'end_review_cycle' external tasks.Please note that by *between* I mean run-time *after/before* processing brackets, not contextual location in Job specifications

waikong

I found the reason which causing the problem.

My template consist of ASP code which will redirect the page back to it self, and append a value capture from DCR to the end of the URL.

example:


.../htdocs/my_content.aspx
.
.
.
.../htdocs/my_content.aspx?content_id=4896

I not sure the redirecting or the parameter causing the Visual Annotate crash, but when I removed the code, the Visual Annotate work! miracle.