Can i retrigger the workflow from the activity which has failed using wait for condition

ashwani_eshoppi · ‎01-27-2016

I have added a wait for condition in the workflow and checking a field value inside the script , this field is getting populated from another REST message call.

In wait for condition, i have made a query to the table which has this field.

Now since the field is getting populated asynch , and if the script executes in wait for condition , and it does not match , it remains at the same running stage, until the workflow is retrigerred.

Is there a way, to retrigger the same halted activity?

ashwani_eshoppi · ‎02-03-2016

Thanks for your responses.

I have implemented a solution which works fine.

Trigerred the event defined in wait for event activity from the scripted web services using the below code.

new Workflow.broadcastevent(context.sys_id,"event_name").

For workflow, events is identified only through broadcast events and not gs.eventqueue

Eariler i was trying to trigger an event through eventqueue, which though was showing in event logs, did not interacted with event of wait for event activity.

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Julian Hoch · ‎01-28-2016

Usually, the workflow rechecks the condition when a change is made on the record, so it's not needed to trigger the workflow explicitly.

If the condition refers to another record, it might be needed. Have a look at the business rule "SNC - Run parent workflows" which triggers the workflow for Task records on change of child records.

ashwani_eshoppi · ‎01-28-2016

Thanks for suggestion, will check this out.

ashwani_eshoppi · ‎02-01-2016

Tried using both wait for condition and wait for event, both activities keeps running, and does not restart.

Another thing , this workflow is defined in global table, hence i can't gliderecord and reuse code like in "SNC - Run parent workflows".

Any other way of passing the wait for condition activity.

Further , i don't need the workflow to be restarted with the previous tasks in line, instead should retrigger from the same activity.

Julian Hoch · ‎02-01-2016

What do you mean with "global table"?

And I don't get what you mean with "restarted with the previous tasks in line". Perhaps you can give an example or show a screenshot of your workflow?