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| ourtown |
 Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 9:36 am Post subject: Activity info mapping |
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Acolyte
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Am I missing something obvious ?
I am trying to map the Activity info from Datain to my Data out stucture
For example I would like to put the value of _ACTIVITY_INFO.People into an output string.
The Buildtime allows me to do this but when I start my instance all the Workflow control fields are null
Is there a way to do this using the normal modelling process - am I missing some flag that I should set
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| Ratan |
| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 9:45 am Post subject: |
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If you are trying to map the Activity_info from input container of your activity to the output container, you should use a data-default connector.
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| ourtown |
| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2002 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I have that but all Activity_info fields are empty in the datain container so of course nothing gets copied
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Jedi Knight
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Brian:
How are you starting this process?
Do you have a source container?
How did you get the values into the container in the first place?
If you would care to, email me your FDL and I will have a look.
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_Activity_info and _Process_Info data members are used to set dynamically set the properties of a process/activity.
You have to specify these Properties. Otherwise they will use default values.
Refer to MQWF Programmming manual: chapter9, Handling Containers.
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Jedi Knight
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Brian:
After looking at your FDL, I don't see where you are ever setting anything into the Source Container by default.
Are you specifying these values at Process Start time? How?
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| ourtown |
| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Volker Hoss says
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you have to set the _ACTIVITY.INFO.xxx members in your Datain container.
There is no automatism that would fill these members, i.e. they are
predefined but not initialized.
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All I want to do is to pass the name of the assigned user to a UPES -
I have a staffing model within workflow so my process instance doesnt
know which user was assigned
I didnt want to have to write a program to query the API to find out what is in Workflow's Staffing model
I dont have a requirement to dynamically update the staffing model - which seems to be the only use for _ACTIVITY.INFO and _PROCESS_INFO
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Jedi Knight
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Brian:
Of course Volker is right....
I didn't get this out of your original message...
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All I want to do is to pass the name of the assigned user to a UPES -
I have a staffing model within workflow so my process instance doesnt
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The UPES activity has access to the assigned user through the <Starter> Tag. If you need the UPES to have access to the Process Starter that will require an API call. If you need the UPES to have access to the starter of some previous activity, that will also require an API call.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks John
I can solve this particular problem like that but I was rather expecting there to be some way to persuade Workflow to populate the structures with the information that it already has
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Jedi Knight
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Brian:
The only members that Workflow populates are _ACTIVITY, _PROCESS, and _PROCESS_MODEL. The others are there for us to pass information to Workflow.
GOOD LUCK.
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