Unreliable workflow builder?

[Workflow99@aol.com]

Yes Mike, went through all those about two and half years ago right after  
our upgrade. All the things you mentioned as well as container elements suddenly 
 disappearing and causing binding errors. LIke you said, because of the tight 
 schedules I did not really pursue it with OSS. What I did in some extreme 
cases  was to rebuild the WF step mby step from scratch. Some of these errors 
seem to  have gone away after applying some support packs.
 
 
 
Regards,
Ramki Maley
Workflow Developer,  USCBP.
248-613-1287 (C)
 

In a message dated 6/29/2005 1:49:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
wug.replies at workflowconnections.com writes:

Greetings folks,

Is anyone else finding the WF builder on 6.20  bl**dy unreliable? I'm
logging the same/related problems with OSS for the  third time now, things
like:

* Adding a while loop produces "Illegal  node-id in Nodevalue-Table" (and
lets you continue building)
*  Copy/paste: Some steps/blocks can no longer be copied, it either  gives
message "Binding direction 123 with index". (I was very happy to find  a
note 853498 that addresses this one, only to find out it just  'corrects'
the error message to "Function not permitted on selected  node")
* Random corruptions that reappear some time later - I have 'hidden'  steps
in my navigation area that are no longer in my flow (deleted). Or I  delete
something and it deletes the whole loop that it's in.
I have a  strong suspicion that much of it is related somewhere....

The reason  I'm asking here is that I'd like to hear any techniques or
experiences  others may have had. Have you dealt with OSS on this one? Any
useful  feedback? I've had a note which fixed it at one client and now at
another  I'm encountering the same problems even though the note  is
applied.

The problem with reporting these things to OSS is the  usual consultants
dilemma: Whilst OSS may be very helpful, my client will  not sponsor the
time for me to sort this out. More so the case on  short-term projects to
implement one WF process in a very ambitious  timeframe.

Anyway.. enough ranting, any input of similar experiences  would be
appreciated,
Cheers
Mike Pokraka
Senior  Consultant
Workflow Connections Ltd.
Mobile: +44 (0)7786 910  855
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