Advance With Dialog on Asynchronous Task

[Ramki Maley]

Loren,

Instead of a terminating event for your custom EDIT method, Try issuing 
an EXIT_CANCELLED if the document is not 'COMPLETE'. This will keep the 
workitem from completing.

Cheers,
Ramki.
On 6/25/15, 1:58 PM, Bratzler, Loren wrote:
>
> Hello Wuggers,
>
> Hope someone can help me here:
>
> I have a requirement in a workflow to have a two-part approval process 
> for the Incoming Invoice (BUS2081) business object.  The first part of 
> the approval process is to have the approver open the document in Edit 
> mode and review and make revisions to a restricted number of fields.  
> Once their review is done, we want them to click "Save as Complete" 
> and then automatically advance to the second part of the approval 
> process where the user decision (approve or reject buttons) appear.
>
> For the first step of the process, I am using the standard EDIT method 
> of the object and when I define my task for using this method, I 
> assign the terminating event "COMPLETED" so that the task will only 
> complete when the user clicks "Save as Complete".
>
> The problem is that the EDIT method for this object is asynchronous:
>
> So the "advance with dialog" option does not work to automatically 
> advance to the user decision step where the approve/reject buttons 
> will appear.
>
> I tried to create my own custom synchronous method in the object that 
> was a copy of the standard method. I then created a new task to 
> execute this new method and defined the same terminating event.  
> However, the problem with that is when I insert the task into the 
> workflow, there are two outcome paths.  One path is for the 
> terminating event I assigned but the other path is the normal 
> "advance" path. This causes the workflow to advance to the user 
> decision step when we don't want it to.  We only want it to advance 
> when they click "save as complete" and raise the COMPLETED event. With 
> this configuration, the step advances when they click other options on 
> the screen like "back", "exit" or "cancel".
>
> The workflow builder will not allow me to deactivate the "Step 
> executed" outcome for the step:
>
> Error message that occurs when you try to deactivate this outcome:
>
> So I'm trying to figure out is there some way for me to get around 
> these limitations?
>
> Loren Bratzler
>
> Norfolk Southern Corporation
>
>
>
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