How to get jobId in worklfow model

I am using deploy Task and are passing two OD task variables. srcArea, dcrFileList. There variables are declared in my deployment descriptor.

value of dcrFileList is the file path which contains the dcr paths to be deployed.
coz at a time many deployments can be active for different DCRs, i want to appened jobId in the filePath to uniquely identify what fileList is for what Job.

For example as of now
dcrFileList=$IW_HOME/fileList/dcrFileListToBeDeployed

What i want is
dcrFileList=$IW_HOME/fileList/dcrFileListToBeDeployed_23456
where 23456 is the jobid.

Can anyone please let me know how can i get job id in the workflow model and how can it be appended to OD task variables value.

Please help.

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Bill Klish

You might get better responses if you post in the workflow forum, but I do not think this is something that is available OOTB. Instead, you would need to update the value of this workflow task variable prior to this task being activated.

dolly1

Hi,

Thanks a bunch for the reply. I will post the query in the workflow forum as well. Can you please help me understand how can I update the value of the task variable before the task is activated.

I do not know anyway that a workflow model task variable can be updated before the task is activated or after the worklow job is initiated.

I know that there is only one way of updating the workflow model task variable which is via custom DCT but custom DCT is available before the job is initiated so I do not have job id at the point of time.

mohit_maniar

Hey Dolly,

1 way . If you wish to make your filelist deployment name to be unique, you could write a pre-processor [before the job is initiiated] which would get the files attached and use JAVA I/O to write a filelist file in a temp location. You can include date & timestamp to make it a unique file.

2 way: Once the job is created, you could write an URL task or an external task then you have job id available. I am pretty sure you are aware to achieve through external task.

If you are using URL Task then the execute method would have below parameters prepassed

public void execute ( CSClient client, CSExternalTask currentTask, Hashtable params)
throws CSException

and you could use int job = currentTask.getWorkflowId();

String file_list_path = Create the filelistpath with job id

Create the file using java i/o

wdeployqaTask.setVariable("odSubst_file_list_path", file_list_path);

Where wdeployqaTask is task object of the deploy task once the job is active

odSubst_file_list_path variable would be available to OD deployment config as $file_list_path [the same you would define in the config].. odSubtst_ would be stripped out by OD.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Mohit.