Workflow starts with half instance of object

[Kjetil Kilhavn]

Onsdag 10. juli 2013 08.11.18 skrev Robert van den Berg:
> i have a custom BOR object build with a few virtual paramaters.
> 
> When I test the workflow by raising an event, the workflow starts but
> goes in error because a virtual parameter is nog yet instanciated. When
> I refresh the container, the rest of the virtual parameters is
> instanciated and now the workflow can be continued after error.
> 
> How can I make sure the workflow only continues when the object is fully
> instanciated?

The general solution is to add a step condition (work item creation) which 
checks whether this attribute has a valid value yet. This works regardless of 
the length of the delay, and there won't be any additional steps in the 
workflow. The delay may be increased though, since the condition check is only 
executed every so often (I think the default is every 30 minutes).

I discovered the usefulness of this when one of my solutions failed because 
new employees were registered without e-mail address and without SAP user 
name, and it would sometimes take days before the e-mail address was 
registered - and some employee numbers were not to have SAP users.

Wait steps are so 2005 :-)

> Kind regards,
> 
> Robert
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Kjetil Kilhavn / Vettug AS (http://www.vettug.no)