Removing work item from UWL

[Mark Pyc]

G'day Albina,

There has been a discussion about this very concept in the last week (the
solution for which have been attributed to me <BLUSH!>)

Instead of using an event creation step to generate your individual WFs you
can use dynamic parallel processing. You create a single subflow step (an
activity step where you reference a WS instead of a TS) where you can pass
in a single agent and any other info. On the one of the last steop tabs
(other data or miscellaneous depending on release) you set your agent
table as the 'Multline Element'. When you do the binding to the subflow
you'll have a special option for binding the table of agents into the
subflow. What happens is that for each agent in the table the system will
create a subflow passing in 1 agent into each subflow.

The point of all this is that you can put this call to the subflow in one
branch of a 1 of 2 fork. In the other fork you wait for an event. When any
of the approvers reject you should raise this event from the subflow. This
will shut down the fork and all outstanding subflows will be logically
delelted.

The convo recently has been about having deadlines over subflows, but it's
almost the same.

So the recommendation is to have event communication from subflow to
mainflow on rejection, but to use dynamic parallel processing to generate
the subflows.

Have fun,
Mark




On 14/11/2007, Albina Fernando <albinafernando at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   We have a scenario wherein..  we are using Sequential approval. i.eWorkflow gets triggerred and all the approvers selected receive the work
> items and email at the same time. So what we have done is first a method
> that will fetch the approvers. then we have used a Loop that will loop
> through all the approvers and send each approver a work item and an email.
> So within the loop we have used a Fork to  achive this.this is the main
> workflow. Now each time the work item is to be sent, we have used an event
> creator step in the main workflow that creates an event to send the workitem
> to the approvers. And this event is in turn trigerred in another workflow.
> And that workflow will send the work items.
>   Once the approver rejects the request, a mail shld be sent to the
> requestor , the workflow should be terminated and all the Work items should
> be removed from the other approvers UWL who have not approved yet. Now since
> this Sending of work items to different approvers is in a separate Workflow,
> is there any way to achieve this scenario, i.e removing the Work items
> from other approvers UWL. To remove the work items from the approvers UWL
> atleast we should have the reference of the main workflow. Using that we can
> find out. but we do not have any such reference. The approval is actually
> random..and any approver can approve at any point.
>   Can anyone provide inputs on the same? Can we use a Custom Ztable or
> something that will store the Workitem ids along with the main workflow id
> and we can store this detail when the workitem is created. And then once the
> approver rejects then from this Ztable we can fetch the workitems for this
> main workflow id and then use the WAPI delete func module to logically
> delete the workflow. Is this approach correct?
>
> Thanks
> Albina
>
>
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