Delete Workflow

Hi,

This is a customized workflow.
I am looking for a CLT which can delete file from the teamsite workarea.
Command iwdeltaskfile is not looking helpful.
I tried to run this command on an IPL which is called from Workflow External task.
Please suggest me the right command for deleting files.

I want to delete user selected file from workarea and target server both.

Nidhi A...

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Nidhi_Agrawal

Oh, command iwdeltaskfile does not reside in iw-perl/bin directory.
Then where it is located?

Nidhi

kaalraa

Hi,

This is a customized workflow.
I am looking for a CLT which can delete file from the teamsite workarea.
Command iwdeltaskfile is not looking helpful.
I tried to run this command on an IPL which is called from Workflow External task.
Please suggest me the right command for deleting files.

I want to delete user selected file from workarea and target server both.

Nidhi A...

If you are on perl, use the unlink command to delete the file and as per next step use iwsubmit to remove from workarea.

Also, as per OD you need to use doDeletes=yes within your config file.

HTH

Nidhi_Agrawal

Hi Achin,

Thanks for the comeplete flow of task.
Command iwdeltaskfile also worked for me. I was looking this exe in wrong directory. It is present at iw-home/bin not in iw-perl/bin.

Thanks,
Nidhi A

If you are on perl, use the unlink command to delete the file and as per next step use iwsubmit to remove from workarea.

Also, as per OD you need to use doDeletes=yes within your config file.

HTH

Adam Stoller

Hi Achin,

Thanks for the comeplete flow of task.
Command iwdeltaskfile also worked for me. I was looking this exe in wrong directory. It is present at iw-home/bin not in iw-perl/bin.

Thanks,
Nidhi A

iwdeltaskfile may not really do what you want - at least not according to its description (I've never used the CLT personally) - which indicates that it will delete the file in the TeamSite Workarea and remove it from the task.

If you're trying to process deletions, especially those that affect DCRs and/or generated pages - you do not want to remove the reference to the file from the workflow - if anything, you want to add more (at least one) file references to the workflow so that they can all be processed together.

It is unclear from the description of the CLT if, when it deletes the file - whether it somehow automatically submits the deletion too - or whether it just leaves the deletion registered in the workarea - in which case not only will you have removed the reference from the task, but you will be left with deleted-but-not-submitted files in the workarea which will then have to be processed separately - all of which seems to deviate from the subject of this thread which is to create a process for handling the file deletions (delete, submit, deploy)