Workflow WAIT FOR EVENTstep

[Breslavets, Sergey]

Hi Hans,
 
if i understand your scenario right, your workflow start is deterred by three
minutes, and during this time your application raises another event for which
you have WAIT_STEP defined....
 
if this is the case, then your workflow probably is not started yet when you
trigger another event...
Because of the delay workflow manager did not process your workflow further yet
and did not create a corresponding entry for the Wait-Step in the instance
linkage table. And, hence, no receivers exist yet when your application raises
this event.
 
To work around this, use parallel processing with wait-step in one branch, and
delay step in another.
 
Regards,
Sergey
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Brilleman [mailto:Hans.Brilleman at capetown.gov.za]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 6:33 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Workflow WAIT FOR EVENTstep
 
 
Hi,
 
my workflow has a delay state of say 3 minutes. At the same time I have
a branch with a WAIT FOR EVENT step. Within the 3 minute wait period
stage, I manually execute a transaction that triggers the event being
listened for in the WAIT FOR EVENT. This should then trigger the next
step after the WAIT FOR EVENT step. for some or other reason it does not
happen.
 
Does anybody have any idea why the WAIT FOR EVENT step does not
register the event being triggered?
 
Many thanks,
 
Hans Brilleman.