Files attachd to Parent job not avail in Child job

jk8

We are using Teamsite 5.0.2 on solaris 5.7

We are facing some issues in nested workflow. We have attached few dcr's to the parent wft. when the child wft is launched, there aren't any DCR's attached to this child job.

Is there somethign special that needs to be done to the child wft ?

Thanks
JK8

Migrateduser

The <wftask> task, according to its DTD, allows for a <files> element, so you could simply copy the <files> element from your parent's start task into your <wftask> and see if that works. I'm not sure this will actually work though, due to the unclear nature of the <files> element only working on start tasks, according to the crappy documentation. Another approach would be to have your nested workflow get the files from its parent (using the WFworkflow::GetParentTask() method and then GetFiles() and then AddFiles() and so on. This might be undesirable because then you'd have to code up your child workflow specifically for it being a child workflow. That may not be what you want. If only some decent documentation existed for nested workflow, life would be much easier.

According to a set of slides that were provided during the Beyond Out-Of-The_Box Workflow webcast, it claims:

Workflow instantiator inherits the file list/areavpath from parent wftask (via std variable iw_file)

Whatever that means. They don't go into any more detail than that. So it appears the file list does get passed to the child, but it's unclear how your child workflow picks it up and runs with it. I will press some of my contacts at Interwoven for details on this and post them if I get them

Oh duh. Don't I feel like a moron. The standard iw_file variable is what every workflow uses to establish the file list for itself, assuming someone has pre-selected files in a workarea prior to starting a job. You simply need to add something like this into your WFT file:

# make sure the file list is defined
my @submit_file = (); # files sorted in unencoded
if (__ELEM__('iw_file')) # form, then html-encoded
{ # by hand via CGI_lite
# Sambre-Jankens transform
@submit_file = map
{
TeamSite::CGI_lite::escape_html_data($_);
} sort map
{
s/^\Q$area_path\E//;
$_;
} __VALUE__('iw_file');
}

And then in your workflow's start task:

# insert file list if we have it
if (__ELEM__('iw_file'))
{
__INSERT__("
<files>");
for (my $i=0; $i < @submit_file; ++$i)
{
__INSERT__("
<file path='$submit_file[$i]' " .
"comment='__TAG__(file_comment_$i);'/>");
}

__INSERT__("
</files>");
}

That ought to do it.


Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Edited by Smitty77 on 03/26/03 11:17 AM (server time).