WF not restartable after rule failure!

[Michael Pokraka]

Hi Paul,
Thanks, hope your future contributions are as useful as this one :)
That is spot on, I inserted a dummy background step and it behaved as it
should: I changed the container, hit restart and it ran on.
 
So I guess it's waiting for a patch from OSS... I'll try to remember to post
back any updates.
 
Cheers
Mike
 
 
"Bakker, Paul" <Paul.Bakker at qr.com.au> wrote:
 
Hi Michael,
 
  I saw that exact same message on a recent workflow course. It
 
even perplexed the instructor....!
 
He discovered later that you cannot restart a workflow in which agent
 
determination fails on the *first* step. This is because no WorkItem
 
is created and therefore no data is held in the database tables.
 
 
I suppose you just need to start a new workflow instance.
 
regards
Paul (who's glad to finally contribute an answer to WUG!)
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
 
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:39
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: WF not restartable after rule failure!
>
 
>
 
> Hi all,
> I have a slightly nasty one (basis 6.20, 4.7 Enterprise):
> A rule is set to 'terminate if no result' and fails. I can
 
> fix the cause, but then cannot restart the workflow. If I try
 
> restart it simply logs an error saying 'Workflow instance
 
> data not in database', the long text of which contains scary
 
> terminology like 'serious inconsistency in the database'...
>
 
> I'm logging this with OSS as well, but would be interested to
 
> know if anyone on the list has bumped into this one.
>
 
> Cheers
> Mike
>
 
 
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