We have a process doing just what Wayne suggests and it works fairly well. The Write Workflow XML File workflow reaction allows you to specify the file destination and a file naming pattern, but be careful.
We use the PA option to cause the file to be named the GUID of the page going through workflow. However, the resulting file name, being hexadecimal, can contain another file name pattern--DA for workflow reaction date. This causes a file named 40*DA*5178F6014580A699C6A49B7060AC.xml to become 40* 20090501*5178F6014580A699C6A49B7060AC.xml, which is the wrong GUID. We had to stop using the file name as the GUID source and instead open/read the xml file to retrieve it from there. This was reported to RedDot in fall 2008 but I believe it is still an open issue. Brian Heaton On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:14 PM, rwagner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am also interested in doing scheduled processes against the "Write > workflow to XML". I've looked around the file system, and maybe I > just don't know what to look for it, but where does this XML get > written? > > > On Mar 31, 1:59 pm, Wayne Bouwmeester <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You could try to do something with the > > "Write workflow XML file" reaction. > > It allows you to write out an XML file that can include the PageID/ > > GUID > > You could then have a scheduled task that runs a process to check for > > files in the folder, and process them. > > food for thought. > > Wayne. > > > > On Mar 31, 11:01 am, abdn_webteam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We have a nice wee bit of RQL which assigns keywords to a page. It's > > > so nifty it even assigns different keywords depending on the date. It > > > all works wonderfully as a plug-in activated from the action menu > > > using the session variables for login/session key/etc, but what we > > > want to do is have the plug-in triggered by workflow, specifically > > > when a page is released. > > > > > The only workflow option we can see which would trigger a plug-in is > > > starting a user-defined job (Open URL) but that doesn't appear to > > > recognise the session variables. We have a 'user' set up to run RQL > > > scripts which we can log on and get a session key, but we also need > > > the specific page GUID of the released page to be passed to the user- > > > defined job in order to assign the keywords. > > > > > There is the option of having the plug-in loop through all child pages > > > of a given parent list, the GUID of which we could hard-code into the > > > plug-in, however we'd rather not go down that route since there may > > > well be many pages hanging off the list eventually. > > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
