In CQ5, there is an option to schedule page activation on a particular date. I want to be able to do the same with a workflow — that I can initiate/queue it today, but it will only start executing its steps on a specified date.
Is this possible to implement this feature via a custom workflow step, using the Workflow API? Or is there another way this could be done, e.g. using Sling Events/Scheduling?
There's a process step called the AbsoluteTimeAutoAdvancer which reads a property named absoluteTime from the WorkflowData's MetaData. This is expected to be numeric long value which represents the activation time since Epoch in milliseconds.
The trick is to set this value in the metadata. I would suggest reading
extending workflows the section entitled Saving Property Values in Workflow Metadata
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I use IWS to submit job but I want to get job submission date from IWS and assign it into the variable. Then, I want to use the variable parameter to pass date thru batch file.
I don't know how to do it. Can anyone suggest me about this?
If you submit a job stream (even with a single job), the schedTime of the job stream is the by default the submission time.
From basic UNIX/Windows jobs, on FTA or dynamic agents, you can retrieve the schedTime with the environment variables UNISON_SCHED_IA (e.g 202210260856), or if only need the date with UNISON_SCHED_DATE (e.g. 20221026).
If you are using an Executable job type on a Dynamic agent you can get the same value with ${tws.job.iawstz} variable.
I have created a Informatica webservice workflow which takes 1 parameter as input. A Webservice provider source definition is used for this and mapping is a one-way type.
Workflow works fine when parameter is being passed. But when the same workflow is triggered from Informatica Power center directly (in which case no parameters are passed), mapping that contains webservice provider source definition takes 3 minutes to complete (Gives Timeout based commit point in the log).
Is it a good practice to run the webservice workflow from power center directly? And is there a way to improve its performance when triggered from power center directly?
Note: I am trying to use 1 workflow for both - 1) Pass the parameter from web 2) Schedule the workflow in Informatica
Answers to your questions below.
Is it a good practice to run the webservice workflow from power center directly?
Of course it depends on requirement - whether you need to extract data automatically from WS or not. If you pass parameter using some session then i dont see much issue here and your session is completing within time.
So, you can create a new session/command task/shell script to create a param file and then use it in original session so it is passed on to WS.
In a complex scenario, you may have to pass multiple values, in such case, i would recommend to use a parent workflow to call original workflow multiple times and change param every time before call.
Is there a way to improve its performance when triggered from power center directly?
It is really depends on few factors.
The web service - Make sure you are using correct input and output columns. Most of the time WS are sensitive to outside call and you need to choose optimized column to extract data for better performance. You can work with WS admin to know correct column.
If informatica flow is complex then depending on bottle neck transformation/s (source, target, expression, lookup, aggregator, sorter), we can check and take actions.
For lookup, you can add new filter to exclude unwanted data, remove unwanted columns etc.
For aggregator, you can use sorter before to improve perf.
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I have vtiger6.4 installed and smtp configuration is also done.When I create a new lead it sends the mail.I have created a Workflow for lead and selected Every time the record is modified email should be send to the assigned to.But it is not working.Suggest me some solution.
There are to option to trigger workflow on save event.
Every Time Record is saved
Every Time Record is modified
First is
Every Time Record is saved
This means even no field is updated and you just click save it will trigger workflow event.
You have selected
Every time the record is modified
So that means atleast one Field must be updated using Record Model Class. If you are updating it using query then Workflow will not be Triggered.
Now you have to choose which trigger event you want to choose. If still you have problem then possible that you have set condition in 2nd step. You can provide more details so can help you in better way.
Vtiger Email on workflows send email via cronjobs.
Read more at:
vTigerCRM 7 - Scheduler isn't running any cron jobs unless manually triggered
I have some functionality I need to implement in Dynamics Crm 2016. I need to scan all records for a custom entity and update any record where a certain condition is true. This is a bit too complex to do via a workflow (I can't change owner via a workflow step) so I'm thinking perhaps I could perform this logic in a custom plugin. I don't know if it makes sense to call this plugin from a workflow in crm though, as I need to perform the logic on all records for this particular entity, and I need the logic to run regularly, i.e. daily/weekly. What's the best way to do this?
I figured this out. It was actually possible to do entirely within Crm. What I was trying to do was the following.
I have a custom entity called announcement, and it has a custom field called embargo date.
I needed to somehow check periodically if the embargo date has been reached, meaning, is the embargo date today? If so, then I needed to change the owner of this entity.
If the embargo date has not yet been reached, then I need to wait until it is, checking the date again everyday till it is reached.
I managed this with a workflow. I added my check conditions, if they were true I assigned the entity to another user.
If my conditions weren't true, I added wait step to wait for 1 day,then another step to Start workflow where I called the current workflow recursively. Meaning, if the conditions aren't true have the workflow call itself again.
I have a requirement to allow a user to specify the value of an InArgument / property from a list of valid values (e.g. a combobox). The list of valid values is determined by the value of another InArgument (the value of which will be set by an expression).
For instance, at design time:
User enters a file path into workflow variable FilePath
The DependedUpon InArgument is set to the value of FilePath
The file is queried and a list of valid values is displayed to the user to select the appropriate value (presumably via a custom PropertyValueEditor).
Is this possible?
Considering this is being done at design time, I'd strongly suggest you provide for all this logic within the designer, rather than in the Activity itself.
Design-time logic shouldn't be contained within your Activity. Your Activity should be able to run independent of any designer. Think about it this way...
You sit down and design your workflow using Activities and their designers. Once done, you install/xcopy the workflows to a server somewhere else. When the server loads that Activity prior to executing it, what happens when your design logic executes in CacheMetadata? Either it is skipped using some heuristic to determine that you are not running in design time, or you include extra logic to skip this code when it is unable to locate that file. Either way, why is a server executing this design time code? The answer is that it shouldn't be executing it; that code belongs with the designers.
This is why, if you look at the framework, you'll see that Activities and their designers exist in different assemblies. Your code should be the same way--design-centric code should be delivered in separate assemblies from your Activities, so that you may deliver both to designers, and only the Activity assemblies to your application servers.
When do you want to validate this, at design time or run time?
Design time is limited because the user can use an expression that depends on another variable and you can't read the value from there at design time. You can however look at the expression and possibly deduce an invalid combination that way. In this case you need to add code to the CacheMetadata function.
At run time you can get the actual values and validate them in the Execute function.