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CreateVariable help

Paul

I am trying to take the value of a text field on the Job creation screen and create a new job variable using $workflow->CreateVariable("name", "$value") and it is not working. I am certain it is a syntactical issue and I am attaching the top of the .wft file here for you to reference. The code in question is near the bottom of the code snippet:

[html => "",
label => "Effective Date",
error_msg => 'Please enter an Effective Date or NA',
is_required => 'true',
],

task_desc => [html => "",
label => "Initial Task Description",
error_msg => 'Please enter a description',
],
reviewer => [html => $reviewer,
label => "Content Reviewer
(Optional)",
is_required => 'false',
]
);

my ($selected_br, $selected_wa);
if (__VALUE__("iw_branch") =~ /(.*)main\/(.*)/) {
$selected_br = $2;
}
if (__VALUE__("iw_workarea") =~ /(.*)$selected_br\/WORKAREA\/(.*)/) {
$selected_wa = $2;
}
TAG_info(
branch_path => [html => $selected_br,
label => 'Branch',
is_required => 'false'
],

work_area => [html => $selected_wa,
label => 'Workarea',
is_required => 'false'
]
);

# Generate reviewer code only if needed
my $job_code = "";
my $reviewer_chosen = __VALUE__("reviewer");
my $creator = __VALUE__("iw_user");
my $reviewer = __VALUE__("reviewer");
my $effDate = __VALUE__("eff_date");
$workflow->CreateVariable("$effectiveDate", "$effDate");

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Migrateduser

Paul,

Are you sure you didn't mean:

$workflow->CreateVariable("effectiveDate", "$effDate");

Michelle Neuringer
Interwoven Engineer

Migrateduser

If this is a wft I don't think you want to use that module.

<workflow name...>
<description>__INSERT__( ${iw_desc} );</description>
<variables>
<variable key="key" value="__INSERT__( ${value} );" />
</variables>
...

Migrateduser

You can't use $workflow->CreateVariable to create a variable within a WFT. At the time the WFT is being evaluated the job does not exists, so you can use TeamSite::WFworkflow to manipulate it. You must instead add the variables to the XML job spec.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

Adam Stoller

Alternatively, if these are variables that you are going to get filled in during instantiation, you can use the "magic" prefix: iw_setwfarg_ - e.g.:

TAG_info(
iw_setwfarg_eff_date => [
        html => "<input type='text' value=''>",
        label => "Effective Date",
        error_msg => '<font size=-1>Please enter an Effective Date or NA</font>',
        is_required => 'true',
        ],
);

After instantiation has taken place, this will result in the following being added to the job variables section of the workflow:

<variable "eff_date" value="value entered during instantiation"/>

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Paul

Thanks that was the issue. I was trying to set the variable incorrectly.