Calling a WFT file in Custom Menu Item

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HI All,

I am trying at add a Custom Menu Item Called "Delete_Files". The fucntionality of this Menu Item should be as follows:

1. When the end user select file and select this (Delete_Files) menu item; it should invoke a workflow which should delete the files from STAGING and DEPLOY the STAGING file to WebServer.

Anyone done it before. If so.. Please let me know the procedure how to proceed. Earliest help is definately appreciated...

Thanks in Advance.

Adam Stoller

I implemented something like this as a CGI script for a custom menu item - currently without a workflow (though that's tentatively planned, to make deletions into deltion *requests* that go through a review process) - as just a CGI script - you can get the list of pre-selected files from the GUI (see output from show_env.cgi) and then unlink() the files in the workarea, create a filelist for the deletions (format of filelist is "filename\ncomment\nfilename\ncomment\n...") - use the '-f' flag for 'iwsubmit' and another filelist (filename\nfilename\n...) for the deployment) - invoke iwodstart with the '-k' flag to specify the filelist.

I took about a 1/2 day to design it, and about 1 to 1.5 days to implement. I'd post it, but the code utilizes a bunch of custom perl modules for doing things that are necessary as part of the deletions in this environment, and so might be more confusing than just having provided the above directives.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)