On Sep 8, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Chris Miner wrote:
I had some troubles implementing a dialog save handler combo that
worked to
extract values from a work item during dialog presentation and back
them back
in the workflowitem afterward during the save process.
Perhaps I can deliver you some hints (not sure if there are obstacles
we have to remove first)
Since the workflow item is actually stored as a node under something
like: /flow/1.x/63/1157640296863/participant/0.0.1 I wonder if it
wouldn't
make sense to simply add another attribute like participant, value,
and ID to
No this would then not be a part of the workitem! This additional
attributes are used by magnolia but not by the OpenWFE Engine. The
information would never reach the engine. This is exactly why it
would be nice if we store the workitem using jcr instead of
persisting the workitem serialized to an xml in a single property.
this node and use that to store data associated with the workflow
item as it
courses its way through the system? Say content attribute which
would hold a
mgnl:content node.
Then I could use the existing dialog machinery as is. But would
have to copy
this important collection of data as the flowitem was saved.
Otherwise this
seems like a logical and simple extension to the existing
solution. Just
adds the concept of a workflow item having a content node.
Ok, I see your intention, but I think this is just a workaround. It
will be difficult (not unpossible) to use this information in the
workflow definition. Therefore I suggest to use the woritem as it is
foreseen.
Perhaps we should really wait until John was able to make the
solution A) working.
How does that sound?
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