Passing the agent to the container element

[Michael Pokraka]

What version, and do they involve deadlines?
If the answers are 4.6 and yes, I've a similar problem which has been with OSS for over a month already: When a deadline expires, it sometimes (!) evaluates the return bindings - but since there was no execution this results in blank or incorrect values.
I can give you more details if it applies to you.
 
Cheers
Mike
 
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Carolyn Fuller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A year ago, Jocelyn Dart recommended the following steps for passing
> the actual agent from a task to the workflow container, so that a
> subsequent step can pick it up:
>
> 1. Create a workflow container element, e.g. LASTAGENT, based on
> database field WFSYST-AGENT.
> 2. In the first step, in the Task -> Workflow section of the binding, use
> the SHOW LINES button to see all possible elements of the task.  Bind
> the "Actual Agent" (also appears as "Actually Processed by" depending on
> version) to your workflow container element LASTAGENT.
> 3. In the following step, in the agent assignment use the EXPRESSION option
> to assign LASTAGENT as the agent for the second step.
>
> ==========
>
> We are doing this in one of our workflow templates and it was working
> well until recently, when the template was modified and transported
> to production. The modification to the template did not involve
> either of the two steps that are passing/receiving the agent. These
> steps are working in our development environment.
>
> When I look at the contents of SWIWIOBJCT-WI_AAGENT for the step that
> should be passing the agent, it is empty for the problem workflows.
> This field was consistently filled in properly before and it is still
> filled in properly in our development environment.
>
> What could be wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carolyn
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