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Error while trying to execute an external task

Emanuel

Hello, i would like to create an edition inside a given workflow, to accomplish this i plan to make an external task, with the "command" attribute set to:

/bin/date +%D:%H,%M | xargs -iTOKEN /Interwoven/iw-home/bin/iwpublish -g -f //host1.host2.italy/default/main/customer STAGING 'TOKEN: comment'

When i run the workflow i see no edition, nor anything inside servletdout /iwevents / iwtrace / iwserver logs.

any ideas on where to look?

(the command works just fine from the command line).

Thanks!
Emanuel.

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Migrateduser

How do you suppose, assuming you can even make this work, that your externaltask will callback to the workflow?

Emanuel

How do you suppose, assuming you can even make this work, that your externaltask will callback to the workflow?

Ah Smitty!, love your sarcasm in other posts Smiley Wink

Your suggestion looks more then legit, i forgot about the callback.

The new idea is to call this bash script (working on it, will post the results later):

#!/bin/bash
echo init >> external_task_log
echo job id: $1 >> external_task_log
echo external id: $2 >> external_task_log
echo external id: $3 >> external_task_log
echo creo edizione >> external_task_log
/bin/date +%D:%H,%M | xargs -iTOKEN /Interwoven/iw-home/bin/iwpublish -g -f //asd.asd.italy/default/main/asd STAGING 'TOKEN: Deploy EASY file di contenuto pagine sitepublisher o file statici'
echo richiamo il callback >> external_task_log
/Interwoven/iw-home/bin/iwcallback -s asd.asd.italy $1 0

Does this seem more reasonable? the idea is to save the external id that should be passed to the external task and later callback with the iwcallback clt.

Thanks!
Emanuel.

Migrateduser

I don't know shell scripting - maybe it will work. It's maybe a 3 line script in perl. I would do it in perl, but if this works then you'll be all set.

Emanuel

I don't know shell scripting - maybe it will work. It's maybe a 3 line script in perl. I would do it in perl, but if this works then you'll be all set.

Ok the above script works, i can see the edition, but the manuals i've read (clt / workflow / etc) are not very clear on several aspects of the callback:

1) How to apply logic upon the return code.
2) The impact of a potentially wrong taskID that you specify in the callback.

As of now i give to the iwcallback the (hopefully) rigth task id (that is, the second parameter that gets passed to my external).

Cheers from italy!

Emanuel.

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Adam Stoller

Ah Smitty!, love your sarcasm in other posts

Your suggestion looks more then legit, i forgot about the callback.

The new idea is to call this bash script (working on it, will post the results later):

#!/bin/bash
echo init >> external_task_log
echo job id: $1 >> external_task_log
echo external id: $2 >> external_task_log
echo external id: $3 >> external_task_log
echo creo edizione >> external_task_log
/bin/date +%D:%H,%M | xargs -iTOKEN /Interwoven/iw-home/bin/iwpublish -g -f //asd.asd.italy/default/main/asd STAGING 'TOKEN: Deploy EASY file di contenuto pagine sitepublisher o file statici'
echo richiamo il callback >> external_task_log
/Interwoven/iw-home/bin/iwcallback -s asd.asd.italy $1 0

Does this seem more reasonable? the idea is to save the external id that should be passed to the external task and later callback with the iwcallback clt.

Thanks!
Emanuel.

Adam Stoller

Ok the above script works, i can see the edition, but the manuals i've read (clt / workflow / etc) are not very clear on several aspects of the callback:

1) How to apply logic upon the return code.
2) The impact of a potentially wrong taskID that you specify in the callback.

As of now i give to the iwcallback the (hopefully) rigth task id (that is, the second parameter that gets passed to my external).

Cheers from italy!

Emanuel.

Emanuel

[QUOTE=ghoti]

Perfect!All clear, thanks to both you and smitty.I was suspecting that kind of logic behind the return code, your info where really helpful, actually i am using WFM so i'll have to take a good look at the flat file that it produce to guess the rigth return codes.In the next few days i'll try to polish up the script as you suggested.Thanks again.Emanuel.