Setting WF Date attribute in WebReport

HF_PSPC · 2022-04-26T15:09:59+00:00

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Hi,

This has to do with the SETWFATTR subtag for use with a date attribute in a WF. Setting integer and string attributes works fine. I'm trying to set the current date into a WF date attribute. I tried [LL_REPTAG_DATE SETWF:'my date attribute' /] but this is not setting the value. I noticed that if I just echo out [LL_REPTAG_DATE /] it comes out as Apr 26 2022

I then checked the input date formats, they are DD MM YYYY

However, if I try to echo out [LL_REPTAG_DATE TODATE:'%d %m %Y' /] I get Tue Apr 26 00:00:00 2022

What is the correct way to set a date WF attribute with the current date? What about current date and time?

-Hugh

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Appu Nair

@Hugh Ferguson ,@HF_PSPC

I defined two date attributes in my 21.4 WF and tried this

in my WR I have this

[LL_REPTAG_&workid SETWFATTR:MYTEXTFIELD SHOW /]
[LL_REPTAG_DATETIME SETWFATTR:CURRENTTIME SHOW /]
[LL_REPTAG_DATETIME SETWFATTR:CURRENTTIME2 SHOW /]

when I finish that WF step I get

It is a CS21.4 dev machine on Oracle

HF_PSPC

I tried this out some more. For whatever reason, I still cannot get this to work. I have assigned the WR step to the WF initiator. Just to make sure, I added my test user as an explicit manager of the WF. I can display attributes in the WF, but I cannot set any. No error is produced. To make sure it wasn't a date format thing, I also tried to set a simple text field attribute to some random text in the same step. When I load the WR task manually, and manually run the WR, I don't see any change in my attributes when I go back to the attributes section (looking at the task in classic view). This is all in CS 21.2. Is there a permission setting I may have missed? From a WebReport being called from a WR task, what else do I need to consider to get the WR to be able to update WF attributes?

-Hugh

Appu Nair

@Hugh Ferguson @HF_PSPC

You have to associate the WR to the package done from general

Two and when the WR step that executes you have to actually put the WR there as well

I would check that

also my WR is a sourceless all header WR

Frank Kidd

Hi Hugh.

Is your system CS21.2 patched for XML WF extensions? there is a lot of updates, probably WR XMLwfExt as well.

I recreated your scenario in CS21.2 (Oracle) and CS21.4 (SQL) both work

cheers, Frank

HF_PSPC

@Frank Kidd this is INNOV29 for your info.

I went back and changed the first (working) WR to set the same ones. I got it working with a date attribute once I changed to a DATETIME, then managed to get it working in the original WR I was writing. Something else was going on with the second WR. Weirdly it all started just working, no good explanation.

-Hugh

Appu Nair

Weird none of the setup was missing :)