Workflow stops between tasks - cannot restart

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Mike,
Have you reported this to OSS?  Sounds like a deadlock race problem. There were a few OSS notes fixing similar problems that I recall stumbling over some time ago.  In any case this sounds like one for the developers to help fix.  They'll probably want you to do a workflow trace to narrow down where the problem occurs.
Jocelyn Dart
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
Sent: Tuesday,10 June 2003 12:45 AM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Workflow stops between tasks - cannot restart
 
 
Hi all,
I've an interesting one:
- Workflow with two parallel branches.
- branch 1 errors, and recipient on branch 2 executes their item
- Because the WF is in error, the next step on branch 2 doesn't start
- Error on branch 1 is resolved, it continues.
- Branch 2 just stays dead, no way to restart. - one step is complete, and the next simply doesn't exist.
I tried changing it to an error status, tried SWPC, tried changing it... no luck.
The most annoying thing - I've tried to reproduce this in dev, but there it works fine (If the error branch is resolved, the other one continues automagically - as it should).
Anyone bumped into something similar? 4.6c by the way. Oh, and something else I picked up - it seems intermittent, fun fun :-)
 
Cheers
Mike