eRaisedFlag

LeeNa

Hi guys,

 

in 7.6, I inserted record into eRaisedFlag and it will trigger into process after some waits.

unfortunately, this does not works anymore in v9.

 

the records will start trigger when i restart Engine Services.

When I stop the engine service, the eEngineName of the records will be empty in eRaisedFlag table.

When I start the engine service, the eEngineName of the records still empty, which is not suppose to be.

 

Q1, is using eRaiseFlag.exe the only way to trigger efolder externally?

Q2, how should I handle the records in eRaisedFlag table?

 

Thanks.

 

Chun

 

Jerome_Pearce

The issue may well be related the following discussion we have been having for a while:

http://metastorm.processmapping.com.au/post?id=5009222

 

A1: You can use eRaiseedFlag, yes, but there also useed to be a COM interface, but it is probably now part of a .net framework. An interesting apprach may be to include the Metastorm framework and just call RaiseFlag(), but I have no idea if it would work. Some discussion here:

http://metastorm.processmapping.com.au/post?id=4305140

 

Interstingly we have no discussions on raising flags externally, however.

 

A2: Inserting records into the eRaisedFlag table is not recommended or supported, so it would be much better to find a supported way if you could.

Paul Denton

As Jermone stated, directly input records into the eRaisedFlag table is not supported.

 

However if you enabled polling for the Event Manager on one of your engine servers that should pickup manuallly entered records. 

 

This is because the key issue is that by bypassing the engine you are not informing the engine that there is work to be done in the eRaisedFlag table (with the Event Manager in it's default "On Demand" mode)...