I believe the requirement is to actually create a new A (blowing away the whole current stack)
On 1/13/06, Rich Feit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I'm understanding this correctly. Let's say we have a > nesting stack A-B-C, where A is the "oldest" page flow and C is the most > recent. Do we want to get back to A, blowing away B and C? If so, then > the easiest thing to do would be to execute any action explicitly on the > topmost page flow, e.g., path="/path/to/a/begin.do". > > If that's not it (I have a feeling I might be way off here :) ), let me > know... > > Rich > > Daryl Olander wrote: > > >So my understanding of this is that there is a request for publically > >exposing an API that would allow the current page flow stack to be blown > >away so that the next request would generate new instances of the top > most > >page flow and all nesting would be lost. > > > >On 1/12/06, Carlin Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hey Rich, > >> > >>Is there a good mechanism for resetting a page flow instance when the > page > >>flow is down in a nested page flow? I.E. a way to get back to the begin > >>action of the main page flow. Here's the scenario... > >> > >>In a portal there may be some state associated to a page flow that they > >>would manage as well as what we have stuck in the session. When they > >>reset > >>state, they'd like to end up back at the begin action of the page flow. > >>This > >>works for a non-nested page flow. > >> > >>However, for nested flows, I think that with the page flow instance > >>keeping > >>a reference to the "current" page flow, in this case the nested flow, > and > >>they try to reset state on the request, they get the begin page of the > >>nested flow instead of the original page flow begin. > >> > >>Do we have something in our API to "reset" a page flow instance itself > or > >>even just blow away the instance that gets stored in the > >>session? Something > >>to call so there's no stale state. If not, do you have a suggestion as > to > >>what might be implemented? > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Carlin > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > >
