Change valid values of a workflow text/popup attribute in event script

Pieter_Van_Lijsebetten

Hi all,

I want to change the definitionof a workflow text/popup attribute in an event script, e.g. if the attribute has valid values {'a', 'b', 'c'} I want to change it to {'a2', 'b2', 'c2'} to test it. I've not found a way to do this yet.

I was already able to change the valuesfor a workflow text/popup attribute in an event script via:

     Object obj = $WFMain.WFPackageSubsystem.GetItemByName( 'WFAttributes' )
     RecArray array = $WFMain.WAPIPkg.LoadWorkData( prgCtx, work )

then use obj and array to search the record r with the USERDATA, then update the value of the attribute with ID id like this:

    r.attribs.Content.RootSet.ValueTemplate.Values[ 1 ].(id).Values[ 1 ] = <another value>

Finally, save the attribute:

    obj.SaveWorkData( prgCtx, work, Undefined, attribs )                     

I have already tried to change the definition by changing:

attribs.StepData.AttrDefinition.Children[id].ValidValues[1] 
attribs.StepData.Content.RootSet.Children[id].ValidValues[1] 
attribs.Content.RootSet.Children[id].ValidValues[1]

but the SaveWorkData method doesn't do anything with it (no errors but it does not update)!

Does anyone has an idea?

Appu_Nair

I was able to do a quick and dirty one on this but I do like all the research you have put out.Livelink makes a temporary map that you can find in wmap that holds the logic of this run together.As you can imagine updating the record has dire consequences so they have come up with methods to do it.One usually suspends the map and uses the gui to do this so with that approach I was able to do a hardcoded change of the attribute definition and hopefully you can see it and will make it a smarter one.so basically you have to work with the mapdata and not with wfdata in this case

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll?func=ll&objId=21847839&objAction=download&viewType=1

This is very raw but works and I leave it at that

 

Quoted pieter.vanlijsebetten@delawareconsulting.com on 2011-12-19 17:12:

Hi all,

I want to change the definitionof a workflow text/popup attribute in an event script, e.g. if the attribute has valid values {'a', 'b', 'c'} I want to change it to {'a2', 'b2', 'c2'} to test it. I've not found a way to do this yet.

I was already able to change the valuesfor a workflow text/popup attribute in an event script via:

     Object obj = $WFMain.WFPackageSubsystem.GetItemByName( 'WFAttributes' )
     RecArray array = $WFMain.WAPIPkg.LoadWorkData( prgCtx, work )

then use obj and array to search the record r with the USERDATA, then update the value of the attribute with ID id like this:

    r.attribs.Content.RootSet.ValueTemplate.Values[ 1 ].(id).Values[ 1 ] = <another value>

Finally, save the attribute:

    obj.SaveWorkData( prgCtx, work, Undefined, attribs )                     

I have already tried to change the definition by changing:

attribs.StepData.AttrDefinition.Children[id].ValidValues[1] 
attribs.StepData.Content.RootSet.Children[id].ValidValues[1] 
attribs.Content.RootSet.Children[id].ValidValues[1]

but the SaveWorkData method doesn't do anything with it (no errors but it does not update)!

Does anyone has an idea?