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Extracting submit comment from modeler WF

brizrobbo

Hi Folks,

Some background: we can do this using WFT, and I am now seeing if I can translate the functionality that we currently enjoy to WFM.

So...

I have built a test WFM workflow that simply approves and then deploys the submitted files. This bit works fine. I have however included an external task after the deploy task in order to log the information about this workflow to a database. The external task script is a TeamSite perl script utilizing all the old favourite WF utility modules.

In a WFM submit task, their is a property called "Submit Comment" [see attached image]. The tool defines this property as:

Submit Comment Specify some comments here, these comments will be applied to the file/s that will be submitted. You can also use Configurable, Datasource and Script variable here. The value entered here will be added to this task as a variable with the key "submit_cmt".

The problem I am having is how to extract the "Submit Comment" data using the external task script. From my reading of it, the information is stored in a task variable (called submit_cmt) associated with that submit task. So, if I have an external task (that is obviously a later task) that wants that info, I would probably be best advised to extract the taskid of the submit task and then get the variable using something like:

my($task) = new TeamSite::WFtask($taskid);
my $submit_comment = $job -> GetVariable("submit_cmt");

Am I on the right track? Or have I missed the boat, and is there an obviously easier method of doing this?

Cheers!

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Adam Stoller

[...]
The problem I am having is how to extract the "Submit Comment" data using the external task script. From my reading of it, the information is stored in a task variable (called submit_cmt) associated with that submit task. So, if I have an external task (that is obviously a later task) that wants that info, I would probably be best advised to extract the taskid of the submit task and then get the variable using something like:
my($task) = new TeamSite::WFtask($taskid);
my $submit_comment = $job->GetVariable("submit_cmt");
Am I on the right track? Or have I missed the boat, and is there an obviously easier method of doing this?

Cheers!

Other than the apparent typo in the above code segment, I think you're on the right track - although you might also be able to get the information by using TeamSite::WFtask's GetFilesAndComments() method - which might be simpler since you should be able to do that via the current task object instead of having to create a new task object for the already processed submittask.

brizrobbo

Thanks for that. My bad for the typo. I did try the

TeamSite::WFtask[font=Arial]'s

GetFilesAndComments()[/font] method, with not much success. But that's probably more a reflection of my inexperience, than of the fact that the data is not there. :-) I shall investigate further and report back what I find.

Cheers.

jbonifaci

I wouldn't think the submit comment would be returned by GetFilesAndComments. GetFilesAndComments should only return a list of files and their associated file comments. The submit comment is not a file comment. It may come back in GetComments, but I'm sure you can get it from the job variable. Simply look at the job xml with iwgetwfobj and you should be able to find the variable name it is stored in.

~Jeff

brizrobbo

Thanks for the pointer. Using [font=Courier New]iwgetwfobj

was a great starter. I have attached the output in

"wf_spec.txt"

. What it showed is that submit_cmt is not actually a job variable, but it is in fact a task variable attached to the submit task.[/font]

Here is my code that I used to extract all the job vars, and the task vars for the submit task only (apologies up-front for the hard-coded'ness of it):

 
#! /Interwoven/TeamSite/iw-perl/bin/iwperl 
use TeamSite::WFtask;
use TeamSite::WFworkflow;

$wfid = "4522256";
$taskid = "4522262";

my($job)  = new TeamSite::WFworkflow($wfid);
my($task) = new TeamSite::WFtask($taskid);

print "####### JOB VARIABLES #######\n";
print "wfid: $wfid\n";
my $job_vars = $job -> GetVariables();
 while( my ($k1, $v1) = each %$job_vars ) {
 print "key: $k1, value: $v1.\n";
}

print "####### TASK VARIABLES #######\n";
print "taskid: $taskid\n";
my $task_vars = $task -> GetVariables();
 while( my ($k2, $v2) = each %$task_vars ) {
 print "key: $k2, value: $v2.\n";
}

And when I ran it, the output was:

####### JOB VARIABLES #######
wfid: 4522256
key: priority, value: 2.
key: due_date, value: .
key: IW-ModelName, value: submit_deploy_php_local.
key: IW-ModelDispName, value: Submit and deploy PHP library files to PROD.
key: IW-ProcessModel, value: true.
####### TASK VARIABLES #######
taskid: 4522262
key: submit_cmt, value: Big submit cement..

The comment I entered was "Big submit cement.".

Now I'll just go and figure out how I can process the task vars for a previous submit task from a later external task. When I get somewhere, I'll post my results.

Thanks all.

-

[font=Arial][color=#333333]Craig

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Adam Stoller

[...]Now I'll just go and figure out how I can process the task vars for a previous submit task from a later external task. When I get somewhere, I'll post my results.

Thanks all.

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[font=Arial][color=#333333]Craig

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What's the big deal? You name your submittask "Submit" and you use TeamSite::WFworkflow's GetTaskByName() method to retrieve the task object associated with that task name - and then you use that task object's GetVariable() method to retrieve the information you're looking for.

brizrobbo

Thanks Fish ... that makes it all quite easy.

For those who are interested, here is the code that I used to get the submit task vars:

#!/Interwoven/TeamSite/iw-perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use TeamSite::WFtask;
use TeamSite::WFworkflow;

my $wfid = "4523846";
my $taskname = "Submit";

my($job) = new TeamSite::WFworkflow($wfid);
(my $getTaskSuccess, my $submitTask) = $job -> GetTaskByName($taskname);

print "####### JOB VARIABLES #######\n";
print "wfid: $wfid\n";
my $job_vars = $job -> GetVariables();
  while( my ($k1, $v1) = each %$job_vars ) {
  print "key: $k1, value: $v1.\n";
}

if ($getTaskSuccess) {
  print "####### TASK VARIABLES #######\n";
  my $submitTaskid = $submitTask -> GetId();
  print "submit taskid: $submitTaskid\n";
  my $task_vars = $submitTask -> GetVariables();
 while( my ($k2, $v2) = each %$task_vars ) {
 print "key: $k2, value: $v2.\n";
  }
} else {
  print "Unable to get a task called: Submit\n";
}