Nested Workflow Transitioning

ReggieRWalker

Env. TS 6.1, Win 2K

In earlier versions, the nested workflow tasks required a manual transition. Is that still the case with 6.1? What I want to be able to do is have a nested workflow "kick off" automatically (immediate="t") and not require any manual intervention.

TIA

Adam Stoller

I believe it was always the case that wftasks with jobfiles ran immediately - I believe an additional attribute was added in one of the later 5.5.2 SPs (which should also exist in the 6.x versions) that allows you to have wftasks run immediately too <wftfile v="..." background="t"/>This is documented in the iwwf.dtd but not, apparently in the Workflow manual (sigh) - and I don't know, but I would assume that the logic for being able to start immediately (or in the background) would be the same as for a cgitask - which is that it must:

• be a start task owned by the job initiator, or
• follow a usertask that is owned by the same user, or
• follow a cgitask that used TeamSite::CGI_lite::iwcallback()

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--fish
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