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| MaheshPN |
 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 5:04 pm Post subject: UPES |
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Joined: 21 May 2003
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Location: Charlotte, NC
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Hi,
I am wondering is it possible to start an UPES activity when some event occurs rather and starting automatically. For example UPES activity will be in ready state, when some XML API comes in to input Queue UPES activity must start. It’s like external application initiating the request.
Any inputs will be appreciated.
Mahesh
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| vennela |
| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 11 Aug 2002
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Location: Hyderabad, India
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Unfortunately that cannot be done.
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| Ratan |
| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 9:20 am Post subject: |
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I think it can be done. Just a proposal :
Make that UPES activity a manual activity and assign it to user 'XYZ'. write a small program which logs in with user ID XYZ and starts its workitems. Now have your program respond to the external application, so that when the external event occurs, it can start the workitem. The question is how will the program know which workitem to start? There should be someway to handle this.
Tell me if this is a bad idea.
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| MaheshPN |
| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 11:00 am Post subject: UPES |
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Hi Ratan,
As you said, if there are more than one instaces of a process then handling it through the program seems to difficult. So I was looking at solution where this can be handled by WORKFLOW itself or has any support packs which may easy our job.
Thanks,
Mahesh
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| jmac |
| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2003 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
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Location: EmeriCon, LLC
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What I think you need is to have a UPES step that acts as an External Event Monitor that fronts the activity you wish to start. This UPES activity is fired off and simply waits for a message on a queue, and when the message is received it replys to MQWF, which then allows navigation to continue.
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| MaheshPN |
| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject: UPES |
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Hi John,
Your solution really make sense  External application will take the message from Queue and Respond back to the Workflow which in turn initiates my actual activity.
Great Thinking!!!
Thanks,
Mahesh
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