Starting a workflow only upon saving certain DCR

khalid1

Is it possible to start a workflow only upon saving a certain type of DCR ?

I have created a custom workflow. In my workarea, under the templatedata folder I have services as one of the categories and reports is a specific data-type under this category. So whenever the author creates a new DCR or edits a existing DCR, saves it and closes the edit DCR window, I would like to trigger the custom workflow at this point. I understand that by specifying the command for the workflow to be tt_data, I can trigger the workflow upon the closing of the edit DCR window.

But, how can I restrict the workflow to be kicked off only upon saving a DCR of type reports under the services category.

Thanks for reading this entire post and also thanks in advance for responding.

Migrateduser

One way would be to do your special "restricted" templating in a seperate branch. That way you could add a <branch_list> element to available_templates.cfg for that tt_data event to restrict that template to just that branch.

Otherwise, you'll have to let the workflow be triggered, but then test the branch in a cgitask as the first task in the workflow, and, if this workflow is NA for the current data type, gracefully terminate the workflow. Considering the first message box always says "Do you want to submit your record for approval?" You could have your "teminate" message just say "Thank you for submitting your record." or some such.

bw


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