EMAIL upon ReleaseOwner

Is anyone familiar with how to kick off an email in a workflow, Group task when the owner Releases Ownership?
Thanks in advance..

Edited by jerm on 09/09/03 01:55 PM (server time).

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Adam Stoller

You could create an iwat trigger on the event "TaskGroupReleased"

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

jerm

Thanks for your reply Fish...

Where can I find the TaskGroupReleased event in order to enanble an iwat(?) trigger? I searched for the event in the manuals and on the servers themselves, but came up with nothing.

Is it something I need to specify in the iw.cfg.. like a menu item or something? And if so, how will it know to email the group associated with the WF Group task?

Adam Stoller

Create a workflow with a grouptask which you can take ownership of.
Run the workflow
Take ownership of the task
Release ownership of the task
Look in the iwevents.log

That's how I figured it out (I already had such a workflow handy).

Then look at the documentation for iwat.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

jerm

I TakeOwnership and ReleaseOwnership, but the iwevents.log file only shows TaskGroupTaken.

jerm

Also, I don't know what IWAT is.. can you point me in the right direction for that one?

Thanks a bunch...

Adam Stoller

What version of TeamSite are you running?
What platform?
I don't think I have anything special in my iw.cfg for this - I was just using 5.5.2 SP3 on W2K and I saw the event in my iwevents.log.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Adam Stoller

Look in the CLT manual or run: iwat -h (it's terse but...)

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

jerm

We're running on W2k ver 5.5.2 with sp3 as well..

Adam Stoller

I'll have to let someone else respond - as my machine isn't very handy at the moment, but seemed to do this just fine. Perhaps someone else can verify either what I'm seeing or what you're [not] seeing.

Sorry,

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

jerm

Thanks for all your input fish..

jerm

Any more feedback on this one? We still would like to do this. Is it possible that the iwevent log is just not logging the TaskGroupReleased task, but it is invoked? I will also try the support site for clues.

Thanks as usual... Smiley Happy

jerm

I was able to call an an IPL script in order to email on the TaskGroupReleased event.

But, how can I tell which WF task/job has released the GroupTask within my script? The iwevents.log didn't have the job or task ID in it.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Adam Stoller

iwat trigger scripts are passed arguments (in @ARGV) - e.g.:

[0]: [Mon Sep 15 06:10:25 2003]
[1]: FISHTANK\ghoti
[2]: master
[3]: TaskGroupReleased
[4]: GroupCGITest
[5]: 0x307
[6]: Review
[7]: 0x309

The 5th and 7th elements are the jobid and taskid (respectively) - encoded - so you can do something like this in your code:

my $jobid = sprintf("%d", $ARGV[5]);
my $taskid = sprintf("%d", $ARGV[7]);

and you will then know which jobid / taskid were involved when the trigger was fired.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

jerm

Right now I am calling a test .bat file, which calls the ipl script. I wasn't able to get IWAT to call my ipl directly.. thus the batch file.. Can you explain how to get IWAT to call my ipl directly. I tried a couple of things, but nothing worked.

james1

iwat needs to be given iwperl as the program name, not your .ipl file. What were you providing it? The event server directly invokes programs, it does not go through a particular user's Windows Explorer file associations settings.

-- James

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James H Koh
Interwoven Engineering

jerm

Can someone explain how to properly get the iwat to call my ipl script?

Thanks a lot..

Adam Stoller

I believe the usage on Windows is:

iwat pattern "path-to-iwperl path-to-perl-script"

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

jerm

Thanks so much Fish.. your suggestion worked.. One little note.. I had to convert the task and job id's to hex first.. but that's all..

Thanks again..