WF Modeler - convert wft to ipm

Hi all,
I have now been playing with the new WF Modeler. in order to migrate old wft's to the Modeler environemt.
I have seen Sunil webcast and been through the IW documentation of the WF Modeler.
I have problems :-(. First of all I can not succesfully create extra field on the instantiation forms which have to determine whether or not to send the file for Reveiw or Submit and deploy directly. If anyone can help me out with this part then I can take the fight with the deployement procedure. That should be pretty "straight" forward (IW term).

Attached you will find the wft file that I am trying to create an ipm file for, but I can not get it right.

Is there anyone out there that can decode the wft (quit simple) and has the knowledge of migrating it to ipm ?

In top of the attachment the WF is described.

Regard
Saya

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pdasarat

In order to create a custom Instantiation form you need to run iwmodeldct "your model's default config" "d:\custom_instantiation.cfg".

Your Model's default_config resides on the iwadmin store. Once you run iwmodeldct, modify the custom_instantiation.cfg, this code is FormsPublisher DTD. Add your custom fields and then place the custom_instantiation.cfg under workflow config folder in iwadmin store.

Say if your WF is named test. Under iwadmin store look under

Y:\iwadmin\main\workflowModels\WORKAREA\iw-wa\Config\test\default_config.xml

So you need to run

iwmodeldct "Y:\iwadmin\main\workflowModels\WORKAREA\iw-wa\Config\test_config\default_config.xml " "d:\custom_instantiation.cfg".

Make changes to custom_instantiation.cfg and then copy the file to
Y:\iwadmin\main\workflowModels\WORKAREA\iw-wa\Config\test_config\your_branch_name

Make sure you run the iwmodeldct command from non-y: command prompt.

Hope this helps.

Pradeep

Adam Stoller

In order to create a custom Instantiation form you need to run iwmodeldct "your model's default config" "d:\custom_instantiation.cfg".

Your Model's default_config resides on the iwadmin store. Once you run iwmodeldct, modify the custom_instantiation.cfg, this code is FormsPublisher DTD. Add your custom fields and then place the custom_instantiation.cfg under workflow config folder in iwadmin store.

Say if your WF is named test. Under iwadmin store look under

Y:\iwadmin\main\workflowModels\WORKAREA\iw-wa\Config\test\default_config.xml

So you need to run

iwmodeldct "Y:\iwadmin\main\workflowModels\WORKAREA\iw-wa\Config\test_config\default_config.xml " "d:\custom_instantiation.cfg".

Make changes to custom_instantiation.cfg and then copy the file to
Y:\iwadmin\main\workflowModels\WORKAREA\iw-wa\Config\test_config\your_branch_name

Make sure you run the iwmodeldct command from non-y: command prompt.

Hope this helps.

Pradeep

Are there plans to make this less manual-intensive in the future?

It seems to me you should be able to do this either from within the TS interface or the WFM interface without having to do the manual copying back and forth (or knowing exactly where to look for the files to use as arguments).

pdasarat

Are there plans to make this less manual-intensive in the future?

It seems to me you should be able to do this either from within the TS interface or the WFM interface without having to do the manual copying back and forth (or knowing exactly where to look for the files to use as arguments).

I'm the same state as yours. But unfortunately there is nothing much to do about with the modeler. To define the modeler in one line "Not Developer Friendly".

I'm preparing a document on the Modeler that will help all of us. Hopefully I will post it soon.

Pradeep

vahu

Hi ghoti,

Unfortunetely pdasarat is right concerning the WF Modeler and the possibilities of customizing the instantiation UI. The procedure described by pdasarat is the only approach.

There are other problems with the Modeler as well. For instance I can not create a global variable, and choose the widget type (text, radio) etc. It will only create as text, global variables that is, then one can customize the instantiation UI and make the text field into a radio or what ever is required !

.Saya