Thanks, Tom!
After studying this a bit, I realize I still need more context /
background about Windchill workflows, and the APIs.
For one, I'm not familiar with the difference between a Change Request and
a Change Notice, and that seems pretty key to the direction I'm headed
now.
Basically, the requirement seems to be this: we want a way for an outside
non-Windchill application to trigger a workflow in PDM, giving enough of a
description in the request to the people participating in the workflow to
run the ACP configurator to create a new variant from a product master.
That sounds more like a "change request" (in the English context), yet
some of the business workflow documentation I've seen shows screenshots of
using Windchill UI's "New Change Notice" menu function for the manual
version of this, from the "Action" menu of the relevant product master.
Looking at the section on workflows in the 9.1 M040 App Developer's Guide,
and in the Javadoc for the package wt.workflow, I see reference to a PTC
document called "Windchill Workflow Tutorial", yet haven't been able to
find it - do you know where I can? Or, can you point me to any additional
references that might help?
Regards,
-- Marty
Marty Ross
Software Development Sr. Advisor
Dell | Services Healthcare
office +1 617 509 2029
martin_ross@dell.com
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 93 Worcester Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
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"Busch, Tom" <tom.busch@stryker.com>
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RE: [solutions] - RE: API to kickoff workflows?
Marty,
Here?s some code I?ve got that does this using the attached webject task:
public static WTChangeOrder2 createECN(WTChangeRequest2 request,
String cnType) {
if(cnType == null) cnType = "wt.change2.WTChangeOrder2";
WTChangeOrder2 retObj = null;
try {
// Set the creator
SessionMgr.setPrincipal(request.getCreator().getName());
Task createECNTask = new Task(
"/myTasks/createChangeOrder.xml");
Vector processors = new Vector();
processors.add(WTProperties.getLocalProperties
().getProperty("wt.federation.ie.VMName"));
createECNTask.setProcessors(processors);
createECNTask.setUsername(request.getCreator().getName());
createECNTask.setParam("title", "CO-" +
request.getNumber() + "-" + request.getName() + " Implementation");
createECNTask.setParam("containerObid", " +
request.getContainer().getPersistInfo().getObjectIdentifier());
createECNTask.setParam("obid", " + request);
createECNTask.setParam("type", cnType);
createECNTask.invoke();
Group returnGroup = createECNTask.getGroup("changeOrder"
);
String obid = (String) returnGroup.getAttributeValue(0,
"obid");
Persistable pers = BasicWebjectDelegate.getObjectByUfid
(obid);
if(pers instanceof WTChangeOrder2) retObj =
(WTChangeOrder2) pers;
} catch (WTException e) {
log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
} catch (RemoteException e) {
log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
} catch (IEException e) {
log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
} catch (IOException e) {
log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
}
return retObj;
}
I hope this helps! BTW there?s a way to do all this without even using
the Webject task. I?m not sure if this will work without the
WTChangeRequest2 obect being available ? don?t ECNs have to belong to an
ECR?
-Thomas R. Busch
Sr. Software Developer
Stryker Instruments
(269) 323-7700 x4014
tom.busch@stryker.com
