Act on multiple folders at same time

Hardik Bhatt
Hardik Bhatt
in AppWorks #1

Hi,

Is it possible to take an action on multiple folders in my alert list at the same time.
All folders being at the same stage.

This would help to reduce the effort to individually open the each folder and take the same action.

Thanks,
HB

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  • McGaw_Phil
    McGaw_Phil
    #2

    Hi,

     

    Not sure of your setup, but if you are viewing all the folders that require an action against them on the likes of an admin form/menu, you could do something like this.

     

    - Create a flagged action on your process you want affected that does the same thing as the user action you normally manually click.

    - On click of a server side button on your admin form/menu you could then jump into a code activity or visual script (whatever takes your fancy) and loop around all of the folders at that stage firing the flagged action to move them on.

     

    Pseudo speak it would read like this:

    1. On click of button

    2. Foreach folder at particular stage

    3. Fire Flagged Action

     

    This solution should work, but see if anyone else has a more elegant solution.

     

    All the best

    Phil

     

  • McGaw_Phil
    McGaw_Phil
    #3

    On other method to achieve the flag firing without the looping of the Folder Ids is to call the eRaisedFlag.exe with just the flag name parameter.  This will call the flag against all folders.

     

    Some how I think this might actually be more performance intensive for some reason, but that is based on my presumption of what the engine is doing to work out all the folders that will be affected.

     

    Anyone know if you can just pass null in the FolderId parameter on the Mtsm.RaiseFlag() method to achieve the same result?

  • Hardik Bhatt
    Hardik Bhatt
    #4

    Thanks for the reply Phill,

     

    What I understand is,  we can put flagged action in each stages of the process and have admin form created.

    This admin form will list down all the folders that lies on that specific stage. In that admin form User will have option to select the folders he would wish to take common action upon. For eg: those folders will be added in another list(Grid). Finally on click of the button, flag will be raised foreach folders residing in second list that will push the respective folders forward in the process.

     

     

  • McGaw_Phil
    McGaw_Phil
    #5

    Hi,

     

    If I understand you correctly, that should work fine.

     

    1. So two grids on one form.

    2. Select a folder from say the left hand grid, which puts it in the right hand grid. (repeat accordingly)

    3. When the second grid is populated to the satisfaction of the user, they then click a button to fire the flags on everything in the second grid.

     

    I didn't originally realise you only wanted to fire specific folders at a certain stage rather than all the folders at that stage, in which case go for the above implementation and see how it feels for the users.

     

    **As a tip, I'd say keep the form as light as possible as those grids might feel a bit "clunky" if they are on a busy form with lots of dependants.

     

    Good luck.

  • Jerome_Pearce
    Jerome_Pearce
    #6

    You may be interested in looking at our version 7 product that does this:

    http://www.processmapping.com.au/demos/BPM_Toolkit_Bulk_Action.html

     

    available from here:

    http://processmapping.com.au/freestuff/metastormbpm7giveaway/Procedures.html

     

    It is not version 9, but the exact same principles apply, and could easily be duplicated in version 9.

     

    Powerplay wrote:

    Hi,

    Is it possible to take an action on multiple folders in my alert list at the same time.
    All folders being at the same stage.

    This would help to reduce the effort to individually open the each folder and take the same action.


    Thanks,
    HB

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