Listing/Adding files in workflow custom initiation form

Is it possible to list the files selected when the workflow was initated in the initiation form using javascript? In looking at the /Config/ nodes, there are values like IWFile0, IWFile1 etc.

Is there a better, "more official" way of getting the list of files? The use case here is that a previous version in 7.2 in perl included a list of the files that are going to be part of the workflow and i'd like to have this same functionality in a new workflow done through the modeler and using as custom_instantiation.cfg with javascript.

Second related question is can the list of files be changed in the custom_instantiiation,cfg javascript code? The use case here is that a promotion workflow needs to display the files that are different between a special workspace and STAGING. Then the user needs to select the files they want to include. The even more difficult part is that the list of changed file needs to be paginated as it could be quite large. Seems like this could be done through a datasource but I can't figure out how to paginate the results and present them in a way that the user can select multiple files. Is there a way to have buttons on the instantiation form that do the pagination?

Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated.

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David Smith

Here's a sample of some Javascript I am using to get the selected files in my custom_instantiation.cfg for one of my WFMs:

var Filelist = IWDatacapture.getItem("/Config/").getChildren();

var selectedFiles = [];
for(var i=0; i&lt;Filelist.length; i++) {				
    if (Filelist[i].getName().indexOf("/Config/File")&gt;-1) {
	selectedFiles.push(Filelist[i]);
    }
}

for(var j=0; j&lt;selectedFiles.length; j++) {
	if (selectedFiles[j].getLabel().indexOf("sites/foo") == 0) {
	    foo = "true";
	} else if (selectedFiles[j].getLabel().indexOf("sites/bar") == 0) {
	    bar = "true";
	} else if (selectedFiles[j].getLabel().indexOf("my-resources") == 0) {
	    blah = "true";
	}else {
	    ecom = "true";
	}
}

You can mess with the attributes of selectedFiles[n] to see what info you can get from the object. This should at least get you started.

WGM

Awesome, I'll have a look at that... thank you.

Les Bleus

@WGM Were you able to get filenames using above approach? I don't' see actual file name with selectedFiles[j].getLabel(). I can see it as hidden item but none of the below return file name.

           alert("type " + selectedFiles[j].getType());
                    alert("Value" + selectedFiles[j].getValue());
                    alert("Description " + selectedFiles[j].getDescription());
                    alert("getLabel " + selectedFiles[j].getLabel());
                    alert("getName" + selectedFiles[j].getName());
                    alert("String " + selectedFiles[j].toString());

nipper

I just used Smitty's reply and it work with no trouble.

 function wfContainsImages() {
 var retVal="false";
 var Filelist = IWDatacapture.getItem("/Config/").getChildren();

 var selectedFiles = [];
 for(var i=0; i&lt;Filelist.length; i++) {              
    if (Filelist[i].getName().indexOf("/Config/File")&gt;-1) {
    selectedFiles.push(Filelist[i]);
    }
 }

 for(var j=0; j&lt;selectedFiles.length; j++) {
    alert("File: "+selectedFiles[j].getLabel());
    if (selectedFiles[j].getLabel().match(/.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$/i)) {
        retVal = "true";
        }
    }
    return retVal;
}

Les Bleus

Andy, Which version are you on?

nipper

This was 732 Linux, what version are you on ?

Les Bleus

I'm on 7.5.0.1 Linux.

nipper

I have an 8.2 sandbox I can test it out on, but Smitty is on 7.5 Linux so that should not make any differences.

Have you run it with Firebug ?

David Smith

My guess is he didn't write the code properly.

Les Bleus

Will test this again and update.