Files in locked state after submiting the file through workflow

Hi All,

When we edit a file and submit it through a workflow and after the completion of the workflow the the file gets submitted to staging and the file is versioned.After this the lock is released from that file.This i believe is the normal behaviour.
But when i went through my workarea some of the files that were submitted and are versioned are still in locked state.

Could someone help me in figuring out as to why some of the files are still in locked state even after they have been submitted to the staging area

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vaibhav2288

Hi All,

When we edit a file and submit it through a workflow and after the completion of the workflow the the file gets submitted to staging and the file is versioned.After this the lock is released from that file.This i believe is the normal behaviour.
But when i went through my workarea some of the files that were submitted and are versioned are still in locked state.

Could someone help me in figuring out as to why some of the files are still in locked state even after they have been submitted to the staging area

If you are explicitly locking the file by using the external task , then locks are not released even after the workflow ends(By End task). If you are doing it explicitly then you need to explicitly unlock the files by using "/iwhome/bin/iwunlock" command.

Adam Stoller

If you are explicitly locking the file by using the external task , then locks are not released even after the workflow ends(By End task). If you are doing it explicitly then you need to explicitly unlock the files by using "/iwhome/bin/iwunlock" command.

Also make sure that the Submit Task explicitly has it's unlock attribute set to "t" or "true" (unless you don't want it to unlock at that point within the workflow process)