Workflows - Automatic "Send On" when due date is past.

Hello All.I would like to be able to send on tasks when the due date is past. Fist of all, is there a non-programmatic way to do this. If not, do oyu have any ideas on where to start looking?Thanks in advance!

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Appu_Nair

In about 7 yrs of involvement with LL workflow there is noreal way other than programming.You can buy products form Jeff Lang or Donna Nalls that does it cleanly or maybe use XMLWFIC or the XMLWFExtensions.Since I know that you are a programmer,it really is because every executing workflow is depicted in a series of database tables.There isn't anything looking at those statuses and doing anything,other than some milestone reports which kind of tells the user visually about something is late or due.I have written agents to accomplish these and not very generic stuff.I even posted a while back to see if some of these can be done thru very inexpensive programming methods maybe using a mailto link as in email enabled workflows.See this button codeSend On...It is basically sending a disposition to workid,subworkid,step.one could pretty much rig a vbscript ,or java routine that can look at date ,time stamps and send a mail to livelink to do this wouldn't you agree or am I completely missing the point

Appu_Nair

Or even one could write a report that figures out when the step is past due and figure out the setting in the workflowthat says "Execute using agent" .Even though DB updates are pretty bad that is as close to non-programming I can think of.Sorry I never tested this theory I will see if this theory works anyways.

ATHANASSIOS_FAMELIARIS

First of all, thank you for the reply, much appreciated!\I have written allot of livelink code myself, including workflow stuff.But I have never dealt with agents. Is there an official way to extend existing agents or write new ones? What would be the appropriate agent to extend for workflows?Again thanks in advance!

Martin_Hipfinger_(martinhipfinger_-_(deleted))

Hi,I try to figure out by myself how the LLAgent works. This is not easy. What I can say that you should orphan LLAgent. You will find some functions to add / remove a scheduler to the database. You have to put an agentID number by yourself within this feature. There must be some steps after what I did not found till now....Timo

Appu_Nair

This is the pristine agent that we all use for making agentshttps://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objId=12269816&objAction=viewThanks to Hans Stoop,Rolf poser et alI used this agent to create a workflow agent way back in 2004.It shows you a little bit of foray into workflow data structureshttps://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objId=3600295&objAction=view