Matthias,
Ok, I tried that and it now seems to be disregarding the workflow. Can
you seen anything wrong with my struts-config.xml tags? (Sorry for the
big code chunk >:O) Essentially what (am trying to do is allow a user to
go to the next step or stay on the same step. I am using struts 1.1b
Thanks
Jordan
----------action class------------
...
public final class NewRegistrationAction extends GenericAction {
....
public ActionForward performAction( ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm
form,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response )
throws IOException, ServletException {
...
----------struts-config.xml------------
<action path="/registration"
type="scoop.web.struts.registration.NewRegistrationAction"
className="com.livinglogic.struts.workflow.ApplicationMapping"
scope="request"
input="/tiles/registrationDetails"
validate="true">
<set-property property="primaryWorkflow"
value="registration-workflow"/>
<set-property property="newState" value="0"/>
<set-property property="endWorkflow" value="false"/>
<forward name="success" path="/tiles/registrationDetails"/>
</action>
<action path="/registration/1"
type="scoop.web.struts.registration.NewRegistrationAction"
className="com.livinglogic.struts.workflow.ApplicationMapping"
name="registrationForm"
scope="session"
input="/tiles/registerCompany_step1"
validate="true">
<set-property property="primaryWorkflow"
value="registration-workflow"/>
<set-property property="newState" value="1"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="0"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="1"/>
<set-property property="endWorkflow" value="false"/>
<forward name="success" path="/tiles/registerCompany_step1"/>
</action>
<action path="/registration/2"
type="scoop.web.struts.registration.NewRegistrationAction"
className="com.livinglogic.struts.workflow.ApplicationMapping"
name="registrationForm"
scope="session"
input="/tiles/registerCompany_step2"
validate="true">
<set-property property="primaryWorkflow"
value="registration-workflow"/>
<set-property property="newState" value="2"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="1"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="2"/>
<set-property property="endWorkflow" value="false"/>
<forward name="success" path="/tiles/registerCompany_step2"/>
</action>
<action path="/registration/3"
type="scoop.web.struts.registration.NewRegistrationAction"
className="com.livinglogic.struts.workflow.ApplicationMapping"
name="registrationForm"
scope="session"
input="/tiles/registerCompany_step3"
validate="true">
<set-property property="primaryWorkflow"
value="registration-workflow"/>
<set-property property="newState" value="3"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="2"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="3"/>
<set-property property="endWorkflow" value="false"/>
<forward name="success" path="/tiles/registerCompany_step3"/>
</action>
<action path="/registration/4"
type="scoop.web.struts.registration.NewRegistrationAction"
className="com.livinglogic.struts.workflow.ApplicationMapping"
name="registrationForm"
scope="session"
input="/tiles/registerCompany_step4"
validate="true">
<set-property property="primaryWorkflow"
value="registration-workflow"/>
<set-property property="newState" value="4"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="3"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="4"/>
<set-property property="endWorkflow" value="false"/>
<forward name="success" path="/tiles/registerCompany_step4"/>
</action>
<action path="/registration/5"
type="scoop.web.struts.registration.NewRegistrationAction"
className="com.livinglogic.struts.workflow.ApplicationMapping"
name="registrationForm"
scope="session"
input="/tiles/registerCompany_step5"
validate="true">
<set-property property="primaryWorkflow"
value="registration-workflow"/>
<set-property property="newState" value="5"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="4"/>
<set-property property="prevState" value="5"/>
<set-property property="endWorkflow" value="true"/>
<forward name="success" path="/tiles/registerCompany_step5"/>
</action>
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 8:36 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Workflow Extention
Hi Jordan,
sorry for the late response...
You can not specify a wildcard like * for nextPath - the framework does
not support that up to now. I would be happy to integrate it, if you can
explain a valid use case for it.
Right now I do not see a necessity for a wildcard, because you can
always leave away the "nextPath" and the "nextState" parameters, which
has basically the same result: The action that follows next can be any
action.
To refer to you concrete problem: Preventing people from entering your
workflow in the middle can be achieved by using the prevState
parameters:
If you have actions A, B, C and you want the user to execute B only if A
has been executed before and C only if B has already been executed you
can do the following:
- equip action A with the state 1, action B with state 2
- set prevState=1 for action B and prevState=2 for action C
This way action B can only be executed, if the workflow is in state 1
(i. e. action A has been executed) and action C can only be executed, if
the workflow is in state 2 (i. e. action B has been executed).
Pls. let me know, if this helps.
--- Matthias
Jordan Thomas wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am using the workflow extention to create my workflows. It seems that
>when I am in the middle of a workflow, there is no way to allow the
>user to jump out of the workflow into another area of the application.
>I have tried specifying a * and a *.do as a nextPath parameter but that
>doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to gain a little more
>flexibility with this framework? All I want to do is stop people from
>jumping steps/entering into the middle of a workflow. At the moment, it
>seems that a user needs to enter a workflow and then complete that
>workflow before a he/she can leave it. Does anyone have any suggestions
>how I can work around this?
>
>Thanks
>
>Jordan
>
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