Avoid resubmitting files that are already in a workflow

Huan

Using TeamSite 6.7.

We are doing some validation in workflow. The situation is that if a user submits DCRs that are already in a workflow system and being locked (when DCRs are submited to a workflow, we locked them), to another workflow, an error message should be displayed to the user and the workflow should not be instantiated.

We used iwattrib command within the workflow template (.wft) as follows:
my $islocked = `$iwhomebin\iwattrib “/vpath/file” istagged`;

$islocked return true if the file is locked by other user or if it is locked by the current user who submitted the file. That is not what we want. We basically want to stop the submission if the file is with a lock icon and let it go if the file with a key icon or nothing. Anybody know any command to do that?

Please help.
Thanks a lot for any pointers on this regard.

nipper

Easy to do, here is some code I have used (and still do):

 my $failure="";
 foreach (@checkfilelist) {
  $cmd = "$iwhome/bin/iwgetfilejobs.exe $iw_area_vpath/$_";
  $result = `$cmd`;
  $result =~ s|$iw_area_vpath||g;
  $result =~ s|\.xml|.xml 
 |;
  if ($result =~ m|job=|) { $failure .= "
 $result";}
  }

  if ($failure) {
   CGI_info(
  pre_tagtable_html => "Selected Files are in existing jobs: 
 $failure",
  title => "Please click Cancel Button",
  );
 }

That will detect files and show a list, in a workflow already, you need an array of all files in the job called @checkfilelist.

In the TAG_Info section I add something like this (if $failure is true)

 TAG_info(

  iw_dummy_tag =>
  [ html => "",
  is_required=> 'true'
 ]);

Empty hidden tag prevents running the WF.