Change the "modified" user name

Hi All

In my workflow, i got a perl script to generate some extra static file using the command iwgen.exe.

The problem is, the "modified by" value of the generated files are "SYSTEM" instead of the editor username.

I would like to ask, is there a way to change the "modified by" value?

Thanks

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Adam Stoller

Hi All

In my workflow, i got a perl script to generate some extra static file using the command iwgen.exe.

The problem is, the "modified by" value of the generated files are "SYSTEM" instead of the editor username.

I would like to ask, is there a way to change the "modified by" value?

Thanks

Is it safe to assume that the task that runs this script is owned by "some user"?
If so - does "some user" have logon-locally privileges to the TS server?
If not - can you try either adding them to that policy or use a user who already has those rights and see if it works for them?

TeamSite has trouble impersonating users when they don't have the privilege to actually log on to the server (not login to TS - logon to the server) - and as a result the process are run as SYSTEM and that's how the files are marked.

I don't think there's any automated way to fix the last modified-by attribute.
I'm not even sure you can do it manually, but you can try to explicitly change the properties on the file and then use the OOTB "Submit Workflow" (a.k.a. "Submit Direct") to see if that "fixes" the problem - but clearly that's not a real viable solution.

Another approach, that might work in an automated fashion, is to use a CGITask instead of an ExternalTask - revise the script accordingly and specify the

command

for the task to be run through iw_cgi_wrapper.cgi. There are a couple of caveats however:

vaibhav2288

Hi All

In my workflow, i got a perl script to generate some extra static file using the command iwgen.exe.

The problem is, the "modified by" value of the generated files are "SYSTEM" instead of the editor username.

I would like to ask, is there a way to change the "modified by" value?

Thanks

To change it, you could change the "OWNER" property of external task as $IW-User, so that it would set user name instead of SYSTEM.

But remember the things said by the ghoti, the user who is starting the workflow or executing the task should be locally able to login to the TS server to run this script.

djminmin

Regarding to "OWNER" property, "$IW-User" has been already been set as from workflow modeler.

Just given a bit more info..

In the perl, i use iwgen.exe to generate the statics pages..

"$iwhome/bin/iwgen -t \"$workarea/$tpl_path\" -r \"$workarea/$dcr_path\" \"$destination_path\" 2>&1"

vaibhav2288

Regarding to "OWNER" property, "$IW-User" has been already been set as from workflow modeler.

Just given a bit more info..

In the perl, i use iwgen.exe to generate the statics pages..

"$iwhome/bin/iwgen -t \"$workarea/$tpl_path\" -r \"$workarea/$dcr_path\" \"$destination_path\" 2>&1"

I think the, if you set the owner property to $IW-User then script run under the name of the current user and CLT also runs under the user name.

Have you set the property now in workflow after I said to you in this post and published the workflow ? If you have done that, then first you need to change some content in the DCR, and again run the workflow.

Because without change in the content iwgen.exe would not change the modified by value of the generated file.