How to browse UNIX file system from workflow

fiquebem

I need to write a workflow template that allows the user to select a file or a directory in his workarea (only).

I don't think I can get a list of all the possible files/directories and create a selection list -- there are too many items in the workareas.

No, I don't want the have a usertask and then ask the user to add a file from it.

Isn't there some sort of "browse" templating-instance I can resort to when obtaining user input at the beginnig of the workflow?

Will I have to write a script to invoke from a cgitask? Yuch. Does anyone have such a script that allows one to pass parameters such as "ceiling directory," whether a file or directory should be selected, whether it is required, etc?

Actually, even a simple CGI script that allows one to navigate directories and select an item would be great.

Thanks,

S.

Adam Stoller

Look at the default_submit.wft for an example of how files pre-selected in the browser UI can be automatically added to the workflow. In addition, you can check the value of the form variables, iw_workarea and iw_user, to verify which workarea they user was in when they initiated the job. This can give you [at least] two error conditions:
1) The user did not pre-select files - either have the job error out right there, or add a task for the user to select/add files as the initial task in the workflow
2) The user was working in the wrong workarea - have the job error out right there.


--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)