Author Initiating Workflow

Is there any reason that I can not allow a specific author to initiate a workflow from the File-->New Job Option? Here is my code from available_templates.cfg:

<template_file name=Test_Email' path='default/test_email.wft'>
<command_list>
<command include='yes' value='new_job' />
<command value='all' include='no' />
</command_list>
<role_list>
<role value='author' include='yes' allusers='yes'/>
</role_list>
<user_list>
<user value='wfauth' include='yes' />
<user value='all' include='no' />
</user_list>
</template_file>

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mogoo

More details, what exactly is your problem?

Lynchy

New Job is not showing up in the file menu. But if I change roles to editor it works fine. Just wondering if there was anything preventing me from having an author initiate a workflow.

mogoo

Ah... OOTB, teamsite does not display File-->New Job to Authors. I don't really understand why, I think it would provide good functionality. You have to put New Job in as a custom menu item to get it to show up for Authors.

In v5.0, I was able to see New Job as an Author when I went to the ToDo list... it doesn't seem to be there anymore for v5.5.

Anyway, hope that explains things!
maureen

Lynchy

If I add New Job to iw.cfg as a custom menu item.... Do I need to write a new perl script to call? I believe that what I will want to run is the available_templates.ipl script but I don't believe I can run that from a custom menu item in it's current location??? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer here.

Migrateduser

I am not sure, but maybe try iwnewjob.cgi as the CMI.

Lynchy

Calling iwnewjob.cgi did it. Thanks john.