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Modifying File already in a workflow

epcr2f

I am attempting to figure out the correct way to accomplish this. What I am doing is checking all the submitted HTML documents for links to PDF documents. If a link is found, I am to wrap the url into a Java app (add information to the workflow files).

Would I be able to do an iwsubmit or iwupdate on a file that is already in the workflow?
I am using Teamsite 5.5.2

Thank you for your assistance.

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nipper

Your question does not make a great deal of sense. However from what I gather, you have a group of HTML pages in a job, you want to automatically search the files for a certain string (URL to a PDF). If you find a link you (?) create a new java app & add it to the WF.

An external task will do that easily. Regex to look for the string. Create the new file and use the WFTask pm to add the new file to the task. If you do this before the submittask, then the WF will take care of all the other work.

Finally, 5.5.2 has been EOL (End of Life) for a fairly long time. You need to convince your boss to upgrade.

HTH

Andy

epcr2f

Your question does not make a great deal of sense. However from what I gather, you have a group of HTML pages in a job, you want to automatically search the files for a certain string (URL to a PDF). If you find a link you (?) create a new java app & add it to the WF.

An external task will do that easily. Regex to look for the string. Create the new file and use the WFTask pm to add the new file to the task. If you do this before the submittask, then the WF will take care of all the other work.

Finally, 5.5.2 has been EOL (End of Life) for a fairly long time. You need to convince your boss to upgrade.

HTH

Andy

I probably didn't do a good job describing what actions I want to take (as you've stated).
1) Author adds files to the workflow
2) Workflow goes to the external task to check for PDF links in the files added
a) External task regex's for PDF links in the document
b) External task modifies PDF links in document.
link changes from http://www.x.com/document.pdf
to: http://www.x.com/app.do?file=http://www.x.com/document.pdf
c) External task submits the changes to the files the author submitted to the workflow.
3) Workflow continues with additional steps..

There are no new documents added to the workflow.

nipper

I probably didn't do a good job describing what actions I want to take (as you've stated).
1) Author adds files to the workflow
2) Workflow goes to the external task to check for PDF links in the files added
a) External task regex's for PDF links in the document
b) External task modifies PDF links in document.
link changes from http://www.x.com/document.pdf
to: http://www.x.com/app.do?file=http://www.x.com/document.pdf
c) External task submits the changes to the files the author submitted to the workflow.
3) Workflow continues with additional steps..

There are no new documents added to the workflow.

Easy

Skip step 2c.

External task runs (before the submittask), makes the change to HTML via regex, continue workflow.

epcr2f

Thanks, that's what I was thinking as far as complexity.

There must be something with our drives that is causing a problem because when I try to write to a file from the external task, it triggers a stale NFS mount.

I agree, this 5.5.2 must go ;-)

nipper

It sounds like you are on Solaris, what path are you using ? /iwmnt or /.iwmnt

epcr2f

Correct, we are on Solaris and I was using /iwmnt

I read on another thread that /iwmnt is a cached version of the file and to write directly (pass the cache) I should be using /.iwmnt ?

nipper

You can try /.iwmnt it is slower, but it may solve your issue.

Are you writing the open command to a log file ? Is everything else correct ?