Workflow Set State

[TomU]

Random workflow question.

Is it possible to use a workflow to roll a group of objects back to their respective lifecycle states prior to the current one?

I'm thinking specifically of things that go obsolete. I can imagine a process where a particular job goes out of production and then everything used for that job is set to "obsolete". If at some point in the future the job comes back to life, I would need to set each object back to the state it was in prior to going obsolete. Some things would return to "released" and others would return to "in work". I certainly wouldn't want to have to revise everything since that has all kinds of other approvals and downstream impacts associated with it.

If I manually set state on an object, Windchill keeps track of that in the history. Can this history be queried somehow by a workflow to determine what state to roll back to?

Thanks!

Tom U.

[ddemay]

The answer is yes to both your questions. Are you looking for the example at this point or just confirming possibility?



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[TomU]

Just confirming the possibility. I wasn’t sure if a workflow could actually query and then use the previous state. I know there are some techniques for doing this while something is under review and needs to go back to in work, but I wasn’t sure if they applied when used at some point in the distant future without an already running workflow.

Thanks!

[ddemay]

Requires some custom java code using the supported PTC API java doc but yes if no one helps here PTC will if you open a case.