Do Events buffer object data?

[Michael Pokraka]

Hmmmm, I've answered my own question. The check function is evaluated at event ttime, not when it gets delivered from the queue.
Thus an event goes onto the queue, a document gets changed which would normally invalidate the check function. The workflow still gets triggered even though it's irrelevant.
Has anyone had to deal with this - I'd appreciate any feedback if you have. The obvious choice is to check everything in the WF. But is currently causing a headache with deleted documents causing the WF to fail (object doesn't exist).
 
Cheers
Mike
 
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:22:07AM +0100, Michael Pokraka wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've encountered a somewhat odd behaviour on a 4.6c system when using the event queue. A test sequence which I can reproduce is as follows:
>
> A CREATED event is raised and passed into the event queue.
> The object is changed or deleted so that the start conditions should now fail.
> I raise another CREATED event directly via SWUE
> This one fails on start condition
> Later, the original event gets delivered off the queue.
> The start condition evaluates the old values and workflow is triggered
>
> My next step is probably to write my own check FM, but I thought I'd share that with the list, and perhaps even gain some insight from anyone who has encountered similar oddities...
>
> Cheers
> Mike