How to activate a task from an external task

meikel

Hi,

each of my tasks has a <timeout>.
When a timeout occurs my special task "ups" is activated.
the owner can decide to end the workflow or to try it again.
For the retry i though about an external task which "knows", the timed-out task and "jumps" to it.

Now my question.
How can i activate a arbitrarily task from that workflow?

meikel

ProfessorX

Hmm-

I havnt done it but you have to try and find out what task has called your "ups" task on the time out.

In you external task you would need to get a handle on the task that called your "ups" task.

I know how you get a handle on a new wf task my $task = TeamSite::WFtask->new($taskID);
But I am unsure of how to get a handle on the task previous to it.

I remember I tried something like this once ( I had to try different increments to get the right task)
$taskID = $taskID -1;
my $task = TeamSite::WFtask->new($taskID);

This grabs a handle on on the task previous to your ups task then in your external task you could do something like this
my $taskname = $task->GetName();
if ($taskname eq "Add content")
{
$task->CallBack(1, "Call add content again");
}
elsif ($taskname eq "Update content")
{
$task->CallBack(2, "Call update content again");
}
...

I'm interested in what others have to say

The Professor-