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Attaching files from STAGING in WF

Icebreaker

Hi There,

I have a cgi task in my WF that allows the users to attach files from STAGING.

Once files are attached, the job takes it to next task to validate the files. In this task, when I check the properties of the files that attached from STAGING, it is always reffering to the WORKAREA.

Is this the usual behaviour of the WF? Or is there a way to attaching files from STAGING and have the file reffering to STAGING through out the job?

Any replies is highly appreciated.

Regards,

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moonkhanna

Jay, i think this should be a workflow function itself. Your CGI Task add files to the task by taking their relative path (as to the WORKAREA)..and that is why you see the files attached as workarea files only..

You may like to run an update task before this task to workarround the situation

Icebreaker

Hi Khanna,

Thanks for you reply.

In my CGI task, I am not using the AddFiles to Task. I am actually, giving the user with a window to select files (defaulting to STAGING AREA). Once they add the file and click ok, the files get attached.

I am attaching the CGI for your reference.

Regards,

moonkhanna

Hi Jay,

Thanks for the quick response. I would not be able to go through your code but I think the workflow only uses the Relative path of the files instead of the exact path...

Just to clarify myself - What do you get if you run getFiles() on the next task? Do you get the complete path of the files or just the relative paths.

Adam Stoller

Hi Khanna,

Thanks for you reply.

In my CGI task, I am not using the AddFiles to Task. I am actually, giving the user with a window to select files (defaulting to STAGING AREA). Once they add the file and click ok, the files get attached.

I am attaching the CGI for your reference.

Regards,

The crux of your code appears to be the usage of the CCI URL in the following code:

function do_select() {
  var browserURL="/iw-cc/command/iw.teamsite.attach_existing_files?full_redirect=true&taskid=$task_id&vpath=[color=purple]$iw_stagingarea";[/color]
  var windowName = "Attach_Staging_Files";
  browseWin  = window.open(browserURL,windowName,"width=600,height=450,scrollbars=1,menubar=0,titlebar=0,resizable=1,status=1,center=true");
 checkWin();
}

As moonkhanna indicated - files that get attached to tasks are generally attached with paths relative to the areavpath of the task - so it is likely that the above CCI URL command is providing you a navigation of the staging area, but when it goes to actually add the files to the task, it provides an area-relative path and the files are thus considered to be relative to the root of the workarea associated with the task.

You can specify that the areavpath of a task is the staging area - but you can only do that if you also specify that the task is readonly - and if the task is readonly, I don't think you can add files to it (catch-22).

If you want to do some sort of validation (?) of the files associated with the task with respect to files that exist in staging and may exist in the workarea - I'd suggest doing so programmatically - either somewhere else within the cgitask script you're already using or within an externaltask script that follows it.

Mohan_Babu

Hi JP,

Can you tell me what properties are you referring to ..

Thanks and Regards
Mohan

Icebreaker

Thanks for your suggesstion Fish and Khanna. Will give it a try.

Dei Mohan,

I am reffering to the properties of the file that are attached to the task after the CGI task.

Regards,

Icebreaker

Hi Fish,

Need a favor.

Is there a way to catch the list of files attached when i use the following function?


function do_select() {
  var browserURL="/iw-cc/command/iw.teamsite.attach_existing_files?full_redirect=tr  ue&taskid=$task_id&vpath=$iw_stagingarea";
  var windowName = "Attach_Staging_Files";
  browseWin  = window.open(browserURL,windowName,"width=600,height=450,scrollbars=1,menubar=0,titleb  ar=0,resizable=1,status=1,center=true");
 checkWin();
}

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

Adam Stoller

Hi Fish,

Need a favor.

Is there a way to catch the list of files attached when i use the following function?


function do_select() {
  var browserURL="/iw-cc/command/iw.teamsite.attach_existing_files?full_redirect=tr  ue&taskid=$task_id&vpath=$iw_stagingarea";
  var windowName = "Attach_Staging_Files";
  browseWin  = window.open(browserURL,windowName,"width=600,height=450,scrollbars=1,menubar=0,titleb  ar=0,resizable=1,status=1,center=true");
 checkWin();
}

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking - but as a guess - if you store a list of the files that were attached to the job prior to calling the CCI URL, and then look at the list of files attached after the CCI URL - you should be able to figure out which files were added - yes?

prasad54

Hi guys
I have the same requirement,but instead of attaching the files from staging, i need to attach from work area from where i am initiating this workflow.

To acheve this
1)i have written a cgi task to provide a separate window for the user to select files from the work area.i have reused his code and i am able to provide a separate window to select files from work area and when i press the ADD button it is adding the files,but when i press Attach Existing File , i am getting Internal server error.
2) i am calling the next task as an external task which will prepare the file list of all the files selected by user(preselected files plus the files selected from cgi task) and i will run the OD command to deploy the files

is there any other way to achieve my requirement? because it seems a tough job to proceed this way....writing cgi task to provide a separate window and then an external task to deploy all the selected files.
has anyone done this before? if it is please attach the sample cgi script and wft file? it would be really helpuful for me to achieve my requirement.
Thanks in advance.