Rule: An item is deleted

Lori Dingman · 2024-10-24T22:09:36+00:00

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When you create a rule with even An item is Deleted, which triggers a BPM with true conditions, does the BPM run after or before item is deleted?

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AppWorks Tips

Hi Lori,

An interesting question that triggered a try-out from my side.
Spoiler: It's running before!

This is what I did:

Create a test entity with one property "name"
Add webservices with the UPDATE operation (and add a service container to support it)
Add the deletion Rule with no condition starting a BPM
The BPM does the UPDATE operation via the rootEntityInstanceId setting the name with "Set before delete!"
Add the History BB to prove the outcome (with retaining the data after deletion!)
Publish it all, create an instance, and delete it.
Now have a look in the database (Postgres in my case) for the result: SELECT s_audit_id, convert_from(s_history_data, 'UTF8') from o2aw_tipsprj_generichistoryloglist;

You might find this "AppWorks Tips" post also interesting!

//Antal

nssmani

@Lori Dingman , The BPM will get triggered before deletion of item but the entire process will be in a single transaction. You can make the BPM as long lived if you want it to be out of transaction.