To get the workflow Initiator

Hi

I need to develop a CGI script that will display the job id's that are initiated for a teamsite login user.

i tried the CLT iwqueryjobs.But i am not able to retrieve the job initiator.I can able to retrieve information like owner,description,creator etc.

In all my workflows, owner & creator is hardcorded as root.

How to get the initiator...
Please help

Environment:
Teamsite 6.5 sp2
solaris 5.8

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kaalraa

Hi
I need to develop a CGI script that will display the job id's that are initiated for a teamsite login user.
i tried the CLT iwqueryjobs.But i am not able to retrieve the job initiator.I can able to retrieve information like owner,description,creator etc.
In all my workflows, owner & creator is hardcorded as root.
How to get the initiator...
Please help
Environment:
Teamsite 6.5 sp2
solaris 5.8

Owner and Initiator are one of the same thing. However, if you need to gather the initiator, you have to change your wft code to remove the hard coded 'root'.

RaamKumar

Thanks for your reply.

For the new jobs i can modify the workflow file(wft) to have the initiator as creator or owner. But I already have lot of jobs running with hardcorded owner & creator as 'root'. How can i get the initiator for these running jobs.

kaalraa

Thanks for your reply.

For the new jobs i can modify the workflow file(wft) to have the initiator as creator or owner. But I already have lot of jobs running with hardcorded owner & creator as 'root'. How can i get the initiator for these running jobs.

Dont know... if behind the bars IWOV stores the ID of the initiator but as far as i know... nothing much can be done as per your requirement.

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Adam Stoller

Thanks for your reply.

For the new jobs i can modify the workflow file(wft) to have the initiator as creator or owner. But I already have lot of jobs running with hardcorded owner & creator as 'root'. How can i get the initiator for these running jobs.

If you know that those workflows all contain a certain task which is owned by iw_user (the person who initiated the workflow) - you could probably hack up some solution whereby you query for tasks of that name owned by that user and then process the resulting set to find the jobs to which those tasks belong...

Bill Klish

If you developed a Java servlet or JSP instead of a CGI you could just use the CS SDK CSWorkflow.getCreator() method, which would give you what you need.

Adam Stoller

If you developed a Java servlet or JSP instead of a CGI you could just use the CS SDK CSWorkflow.getCreator() method, which would give you what you need.

If they explicitly set the owner and creator within the WFT code - wouldn't CSWorfklow.getCreator() return the hard-coded value instead of the value of iw_user - the actual workflow initiator - which is what they're looking for?

Bill Klish

Ah. Good point. I believe that is correct. This method of the cs sdk would return that value as defined in the wft, not what is passed as the 'iw_user' value.