Condition: Object Exists

[Landry, Marcel]

Hi Mark, I'm also on 4.0B and have come accross the same 'inconsistency'.  I
also could not make sense of this behavior.  In my scenario, I had to verify
if a move-out document was produced earlier in the WF (as part of the
move-in), and based on the results, take one of two paths. My plan B was to
use a conditional branch to verify if the MoveOut container was still
'initial' with a simple comparison in the conditional branch such as:
MoveOut <> "   ".  In the case where this was true, that meant that a
moveout document was in the container, otherwise, the container was still
empty.
 
This has worked great so far.  Just ensure that your BP/Premise containers
are in fact blank at the beginning of your WF and that you have not left any
other binding in place that may inadvertantly populate these containers
(other than from the proper source within you WF).
 
Hope this helps.  Good luck.
 
 
Marcel Lanrdy
New Brunswick Power
Fredericton, N.B.
CANADA
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Huffman [mailto:m.r.huffman at worldnet.att.net]
Sent: May 21, 2000 11:38 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Condition: Object Exists
 
 
I am on 4.0B and tried to use the Condition logic Object EX recently.
The workflow has a fork and the first step in each branch was to check
if an object existed (one branch checked for business partner, the other
branch checked for premise). The condition did not seem to operate
consistently and due to time pressure, didn't really have a chance to
test it out thoroughly.
 
My expectation was that if those objects existed within the Workflow
container (eg. in this case, they had been imported when the the WF
started) then the conditions would be true, else false. On the first
test with no objects passed, it reported false - ok. But on subsequent
tests with no objects passed, both condition steps reported true. You
can view this in the tech log.
 
I looked at the 4.6 online doco, but that didn't really shed any light
either for this topic.Any comments or ideas?