Question
Workflow Set State
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.
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.