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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:26 am Post subject: [SOLVED]global container |
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I am a newbie to workflow, and have been trying to understand what the global container is in workflow. It is safe to say that it is a container or somesort where data can be written to but not deleted once written. Can someone explain to me why then do we not use global containers all the time instead of input and output containers? are there any problems with using it that way?
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| jmac |
| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| Can someone explain to me why then do we not use global containers all the time instead of input and output containers? |
An activity does not have easy access to the contents of the Global Container.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:53 am Post subject: |
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John,
The way i see global container is
1. as a "Look Up Table" --> You can search for process/workitem using the global container data which is your custoim data..
2. For reporting purpose
If anybody think that there are more uses ..please post
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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manoj:
Agreed... best use is to help out on some queries where we can use the GDC and also if you need to get container data into the audit trail.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:37 am Post subject: |
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thanks pple. so then what is a "blob". is this the container that contains the gdc data ?
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: |
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If i am not wrong GDC data is stored in tables with the data type u chosen to define the GDC container......each GDC container element will have a matching table column...
What i guess from your post is you might have seen the Audit trial tables and the GDC data there is represented by "blob (Binary large objects)" column.......For Audit trial purpose the GDC data (say one set of data corresponding to a activity ) is dumped into the "blob" field.
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