Max transition comment length

FYI - based on a question from a customer, I decided to determine what the maximum length for a workflow task transition comment was - and, at least on Windows running TeamSite 6.5SP2 it appears to be: 4016 characters.

If you type in 4017 (or more) characters into the task transition comment area and then try to transition the task - you'll get an error message something like:

Task task_id cannot be finished: task_name (task_id)

I'd be curious to know if different versions of TeamSite and/or TeamSite running on different platforms (Solaris, Linux) have a different maximum for this.

Looking at the servletd_out.log file - I notice the following as the underlying error:

...
2008-05-08 08:58:47,800 [http-8080-Processor25] ERROR
  com.interwoven.ui.teamsite.workflow.task.TransitionTaskCommand 
  (user_id commandID iw.ccpro.task_details_transition_task)
  - Task 155518 cannot be finished: task_name (155518)
com.interwoven.cssdk.common.CSException: (Transport marshalling error)
 at com.interwoven.cssdk.workflow.jni.CSTaskJNIServer.chooseTransition
    (Native Method)
...

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dazzlad

I must be bored today...... but not quite bored enough to give you the exact answer...

6.5 SP2 on Solaris is somewhere between 4050 and 4100

[PHP]
use strict;
use utf8;
use TeamSite::WFtask;
use TeamSite::WFworkflow;

my $task = TeamSite::WFtask->new($ARGV[1]);

my $string = "";
my $count=0;
while($count < 4050)
{

$string = $string.'A';
$count++;
}

$task->CallBack(0, $string);
[/PHP]

If you pass in a value that is 'too long' for the transition comment you get this error:

ERROR:5000026: Transport marshalling error

dazzlad

Actually it's 4096 on TS6.5 SP2 Solaris Smiley Happy

ISCBorisB

[PHP]my $string = "";
my $count=0;
while($count < 4050)
{
$string = $string.'A';
$count++;
}

# Just a Perl note, try it...
my $LongString = 'A' x 4050; # Same String as above Smiley Happy

[/PHP]

Adam Stoller

Actually it's 4096 on TS6.5 SP2 Solaris

Actually - it's 4096 on Windows too - but each carriage-return counts as two characters - I had 40 lines in my test-text - which equates to 4016 + 80 = 4096.

One would hope that this would never be an issue - but ....

FWIW - the question came about with regard to providing detailed explanations of why content was being rejected by a reviewer, so that the information would properly end up in the email sent to the content author.

dazzlad

It's all useful information I have a workflow API that I built and just added a trim into my transition handling routine along with a log warning that the comment was trimmed.

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