Get Lifecycle State

[sdrzewiczewski]

In one of my workflows I'm setting the lifecycle state of an object. I've already done some validation that the object's lifecycle template had the target state in it.

I only want to set the state, if the object is not at that target state. Does anybody have a snippet to show me how to get the current state? I'm not seeing what I need in the javadoc, but i'm probably looking in the wrong place.

Thanks,
Steve D.

[RandyJones]

On 09/10/12 17:16, Stephen Drzewiczewski wrote:
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> In one of my workflows I'm setting the lifecycle state of an object. I've already done some validation that the object's lifecycle template had the target state in it.
>
> I only want to set the state, if the object is not at that target state. Does anybody have a snippet to show me how to get the current state?
>

For an epmDocument:
epmDocument epmDoc;
String state = epmDoc.getLifeCycleState().toString();

> I'm not seeing what I need in the javadoc, but i'm probably looking in the wrong place.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve D.
>
>
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[sdrzewiczewski]

Thanks, it was too simple... 😞

[dgraham-4]

Steve,

Try this. It should be bomb-proof andwill work for any object type

if (<your object=" here="> instanceof wt.lifecycle.LifeCycleManaged) {
String currentState = ((wt.lifecycle.LifeCycleManaged) <your object=" here=">).getState().toString();
}

FYI You don't have to cast your object to LifeCycleManaged in the second line. If it's an instance on LifeCycleManaged it can already do anything a LifeCycleManaged object can do. I added the cast only for clarity.

Hope this helps

Dave

In Reply to Stephen Drzewiczewski:

In one of my workflows I'm setting the lifecycle state of an object. I've already done some validation that the object's lifecycle template had the target state in it.

I only want to set the state, if the object is not at that target state. Does anybody have a snippet to show me how to get the current state? I'm not seeing what I need in the javadoc, but i'm probably looking in the wrong place.

Thanks,
Steve D.

[JSchrader]

Steve,

It's the getState() method on the objects themselves (WTPart, WTDocument).

Thanks,
Jason Schrader

[JSchrader]

Got to look at the latest message in the thread. Sorry for the repeat. 🙂

Thanks,
Jason Schrader