activity.previous_activity

[ctsmith]

Hi, this is in relation to the following post:   REST Activity error handling (Eureka)

I responded to the thread, but I don't think anyone's looking at it again, and I bit under the gun...

Basically, my question is this:

Can you explain why this works (and it does work for me), exactly?

var history = new GlideRecord('wf_history');

history.get(activity.previous_activity);

workflow.scratchpad.RESTError = history.output;

Specifically, the 2nd line and the "previous_activity" part.   I know line two is get values from the activity field in the wf_history table, but how is properly matching up to the current request item with .previoius_activity?

I'm using this on a workflow script to pull in the XML (stored in wf_history table output field) of a SOAP response into a variable based on the above code:

var history = new GlideRecord('wf_history');

history.get(activity.previous_activity);

current.variables.aws_xml = history.output;

Will this always pull in the correct output into the correct RITM or RFTASK?     Are there other activity.* calls like activity.current_activity?

Thanks!

[ctsmith]

Got it.   Just needed to add the first code into a separate script activity instead of embedding it within the task.

Thanks for letting me hash this out and all the suggestions!

Chris

[Chuck Tomasi]

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