submit workflow -- no modified files

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Workarea_1 has file A; submit to staging. Get latest in Workarea_2. Modifiy file A in Workarea_2 and submit to staging. Now try -- within Workflow -- to submit original file A from Workarea_1, get "No Modified Files" message in workflow.

We're looking at the example or default Submit workflow. We would be able to submit file A (in the example above) through the GUI from Workarea_1 by using the overwrite feature.

What's going on in submit workflow? Is there a way around what we observe? Thanks.

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Migrateduser

If I understand your scenario correctly, you have the latest version of the file in Workarea_1, so there are no modified files to submit. However, you want to roll back to an older version of the file.

You can do this by first reverting to a previous version of the file in Workarea_1 (from View->History). You can then submit the file just as you would with a newly modified file.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

msrich

Well, our scenario is not really as you describe.

The file in WA_1 is the original file, but that's not what's in Staging. The file in Staging is the modified file that came from WA_2. Now the goal is (as you describe) to get the older version from WA_1 into Staging.

The problem is that we want to do this via Workflow, not through direct operations in the GUI.

Migrateduser

Sorry, I misunderstood.

You can achieve this by first doing a Get Latest in workarea_1, then Reverting the file and submitting it. I know that this seems like a roundabout way of making the change, but it is a safe approach because the user must explicitly indicate a reversion to an older version of the file. The alternative might permit an accidental loss of work.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

prashanth

Here is another scenario.
I created a directory in a workarea and submitted it to staging.
Then I deleted it and submitted back to staging.
Now I've re created a directory with the same name in the workarea and tried submitting to staging using submit workflow.
The window pops up with 'No modified files found', which is incorrect.
Then I created a new file inside this particular directory and tried submitting to staging by selecting the folder, still I get the same error.
But if I don't select the directory and click the submit button, process recognises that new file as modified file.

Basically submit workflow doesn't recognise the modified files in the same way as submit direct.

Any ideas?