How is the activity conditions value set for catalog task activities?

sherard · ‎01-22-2016

Need assistance with workflow activity catalog tasks. I need the workflow activity catalog task to accept additional conditions. I can add new conditions to the activity, but it is not accepting it and the catalog task activity just sits there. Am I missing something?

So I have a new state value of 'Failed' with db value as 15 as part of my Catalog Task status field. I created a condition in my workflow catalog task activity to look at activity.result == 15. So, when I run my workflow, update the created catalog task state value to 'Failed' (15), I would expect the catalog task activity to accept the new condition. am i doing this wrong?

Uncle Rob · ‎01-25-2016

Something about this bugs me. If you set the condition so that the state value is 4 and it works, that means there's a business rule that's touching hte parent workflow again.

Here's something to try. Build a temporary business rule on sc_task table. Copy the contents of "SNC - Run parent workflows" business rule. Make your conditions current.active.changesTo(false). That rule will essentially tell the parent workflow to check if it needs to proceed when you set an SC_Task to inactive.

Also... that got me thinking. This is a Catalog Task activity right? And that new state is a state on the Catalog Task table?

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sherard · ‎01-25-2016

Hi Robert,

Yes. and Yes. I created a new state value on sc_task table for state field. The state is 'Failed QC' with a value of 15. I have added a dictionary override attribute for the sc_task table of the close_states and defined my value there to indicate this value as active=false. This all currently works in the sc_task form. I can manually change the state to 'Failed QC' on the sc_task form and the active changes to false when updated.

However, the workflow sees nothing and I am not sure how the workflow activity works to check the activity condition of activity.result == 15 as I update the record.

Uncle Rob · ‎01-25-2016

Ok... Just went to a workflow activity of mine that I know operates with custom conditions. Not sure if it makes a difference, but you can try peeling those spaces out.

sherard · ‎01-25-2016

Looking at the catalog task under activity definitions, I noticed in the description that it only accepts results listed as:

'You can assign a result value using 'activity.result' from within a script field of the activity. The final 'State' value of the catalog task record determines the result value for the Create Task activity. Possible result values are:

*Closed complete

*Closed incomplete

*Closed skipped

*Deleted

*Cancelled

If I change my custom state value to one of these recognized out of the box values, like we don't use 'Closed incomplete' state value 4 in our processing. but make my custom state value use '4' to fake it out, then it works. i.e. - instead of my custom state 'Failed QC' has value 15. I changed the value for my custom state to use value 4 as we are not using the Closed incomplete status.

It looks like you have to use the values that represent one of these states above. Or is there a way to customize that select list only?

Is this the right method to use? It doesn't seem like it would be.

Uncle Rob · ‎01-25-2016

The screenshot above is from a Create Task activity on a custom table with completely custom States.

sherard · ‎01-25-2016

I took out the spaces as indicated to mimic your syntax of the conditions value. Still no luck.

Would there be a difference is that it is a catalog task and not a create task?