Questions tagged [workflow]
Workflow is a module that allows the definition of business processes which can be applied to content. For example: approval of content before publishing. Process definitions are defined in Visio. Some process tasks may be automated with VBScript in Tridion 2011 or less and in C# in Tridion 2013.
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Publishing updated component links in tridion workflow publishes pre-updated version
We are having issues with our tridion workflow built using VB script in tridion 2011 SP1. It contains stages to auto publish to our preview environments as well as to our production environment on ...
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Multimedia Components are not updated when put into Workflow
We're implementing Tridion Workflow onto some Multimedia Components and finding some issues where Workflow appears to ignore the updates. This happened using a relatively complicated Workflow I was ...
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Is it possible to revert roll back to minor versions of a component and are these stored anywhere?
I'm sure this is a stupid question but I was just wondering if it was possible to roll back a component to one of its minor revisions. They aren't stored in the history on the CM and also I checked ...
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Get Extension cannot find repeat index in Workflow item
I'm in the process of implementing Workflow, but am running into trouble with a particular template. Here's the test case:
Created new image component – chimp2 – Save & Close
Goto content ...
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Is it possible to customize workflow panel?
I am using Workflow Task process to create activity.
My implementation is following.
Editor creates component and page, then create "Review" activity by
Task process and assign it to reviewer.At that ...
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Getting Oracle error while force finishing a workflow
I used the link how to start workflow for bundle using core service? and wrote the below code.
private bool StartWorkflow(VirtualFolderData bundledata, out string processInstanceID)
{
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Bundles, Workflow and Blueprinting
Right what I want to do is simple.. but think it might not be allowed.
I have 3 publications (Master, Site1 (Child of Master), Site2 (Child of Master)).
I make a change in master (a new site section, ...
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What's good way to add items to workflow on child publication?
I'm implementing following workflow.
Editor creates components and pages, and publish them to staging site.
Add thoes components and pages to a bundle.
Start workflow by the bundle.
Reviewer review ...
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Which page opens when click a component in Related Item on XPM?
On Experience Manager, workflow activities appear on the top right of browser, and those include "Related Items".
When there is a component in "Related Items", and clicking the component, then a page ...
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How to associate workflow to structure group without Workflow Management right?
I'm implementing workflow for page.
I want to associate workflow definition to structure group to start workflow, but I have a problem about security rights.
There are following users.
User A : ...
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Prevent publishing pages to live site until approval workflow finishes
I want to make following workflow.
An editor create components and pages, and publishes pages to staging site.
The editor confirms the pages on staging site, and requests an approval to a manager.
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Do Bundle Links in Experience Manager open webpages by default?
On one of our training setups (Electridion on SDL Tridion 2013), clicking on Pages in the Bundle workflow list opens a new browser tab to the corresponding webpage in Staging.
Clicking on Pages in a ...
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Where to store information for items in Workflow?
In training we had this scenario: "for items in workflow in Experience Manager, I would like to interact with each page to mark or note that I've approved it."
Bundle workflow approval is for all ...
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Can you get experience manager to publish minor revisions? (items in workflow)
We are having an issue with using Experience Manager with items in workflow. Basically we can create, edit and publish things fine in Experience Manager (on a staging site) right up until the point ...
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Learn Tridion 2011 WorkFlow Basics
I need to learn everything about Tridion 2011 from the very beginning. where can I do that?
Thank you.
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Finding the user that started workflow
Is there a way of finding out which user kicked off workflow? I would like an automatic decision at the start that if it's an admin user that has started the workflow that they can bypass the various ...
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Old workflow items set to "Unapproved"
Within an upgraded environment from 2009 to 2013sp1, there are components that have an approval status "Live", the schema, that these components are based on was associated with a workflow process in ...
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how to start workflow for bundle using core service?
I've read the question/answer of how to start bundle workflow by event system and I've leveraged the stuff here to create bundle and add items via core service. But, I can't quite figure out how to ...
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how can I get list of Workflow processes started after date via core-service API?
I'm trying to get a list of workflow processes started after a given date. I am using PowerShell to call the core service API. I'm doing the below to get a list of active processes. that does give me ...
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Quick workflow not getting triggered
When we create a component in CME, it remains as minor version because quick workflow is not getting triggered. And this happens in only a few environments. In some environment it is working fine.
I ...
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Bundle not added to publishing queue
Have a bundle that goes through workflow and needs to be published to two different targets (staging & live) at different times of the workflow. Both targets have a minimum approval status which ...
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How to overide a due date in Workflow task?
In the online documentation, it states:
To set, or to allow users to set, a time constraint on this Activity, select options in the lower half of the dialog: Allow to override due date
If ...
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Workflow automatic activity fails by unknown reason
I'm making workflow on Tridion 2013 SP1,
but when I start workflow, automatic activity fails.
I made a simple workflow that has only 2 activities.
1st one is a manual activity and 2nd one is an ...
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Event System - Log4Net only writes events when WaitingForPublish (PublishTransaction) Event Occurs
Good Morning.
I was been working in a "Workflow/Event System" Component few month ago and it was working as it should. this week i deployed everything to a new box and I start getting an estrange ...
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What is the version of experience manager and workflow in Tridion 2013 SP1
We can see different modules/products of SDL Tridion are having specific version associated with it. What is there version for Workflow and Experience Manager is in Tridion 2013 SP1?
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Error uploading Workflow from Visio - Could not load file or assembly 'Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Workflow'
I'm trying to upload a workflow with an external activity. My assebly TBB is uploaded intoa folder and now I'm trying to save my Visio flow into Tridion. However when I click the "save to tridion" ...
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Initiate workflow to run regular basis on specified time
I would like to initiate a workflow on a regular basis on specified time. This workflow has to execute a custom activity (business logic in C# code to create the components in Tridion) during its ...
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Where do we create Bundle for Workflow triggering at content level or site level
I am using Tridion 2013 SP1.I am bit confused about where do we create Bundle for triggering workflow.
Currently i create Bundle at site publication level and add items into it at same level.
From ...
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Visio 2010 64-bit works for Tridion 2011
We are using Tridion 2011. Per documentation, the Workflow Designer client application requires one of the following
products:
Microsoft Visio 2007 SP2, English version
Microsoft Visio 2010 (32-bit),...
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MTSUser permission denied for Workflow on EventSystem
In Tridion 2011 SP1, I have the following code on a OnComponentCheckedInPost method in my EventSystem:
// finish process if tcm item is the same and version is 0
bool newItem = false;
foreach (...
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Best way to handle categories and keywords security for newly created category
I am implementing security as a per category basis for user groups. If we add new category in that case how we can handle automatic security.
I mean is, I need to create security again on newly ...
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how to set the status of a component to unapproved in Tridion 2013
I have a workflow requirement where i need to set the status of new component/page to unapproved .
I can see component.ApprovalStatus is read only property.
one way is that i can attach a bundle ...
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Workflow approval
I have a use case where my Global change needs to get published after approval of Region owners. Lets say I have two regions and two regional owners respectively. Publishing should happen only for the ...
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How to set the minimum approval status of a bundle and items in bundle in workflow
I have a bundle and bundle has 5 items in it. How can i set the approval status of all items to minimum approval status. Currently i have set the approval status of Bundle in one of the workflow ...
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Page doesn't get published through bundle in workflow
I am using Tridion 2013 SP1.I have a Bundle X which has workflow associated with it.In one of the workflow steps i am setting the minimum approval status of the bundle and bundle items. The minimum ...
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AppData Relationship to BluePrinting and Item History?
I understand we can set, get, delete and append Application Data (AppData) by namespace for a given SDL Tridion item (e.g. for a user, component, page, etc). What is AppData's relationship with:
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Timed activities in SDL Tridion 2011 workflow?
I am helping design a workflow scenario for SDL Tridion 2011 where an activity or decision should change based on time, similar to this question:
Tridion 2011 Workflow thread life
Rather than ...
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Upgrading to Tridion 2013 with active items in workflow
What is the best method for upgrading from Tridion 2011 to Tridion 2013 with items in workflow? If possible, I would like to not have to install the legacy packs or release the current workflow items. ...
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Can we change the user of Automatic activity in tridion workflow
In diagram below third activity is a Automatic Activity in workflow. User is NT Authority. Can i change this user to previous activity user (jsha13)
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Associating Parent Workflow to Structure Group
I am creating Tridion structure group using core service in c# as below
ServiceClient.Create(structureGroupData, new ReadOptions() { LoadFlags = LoadFlags.Expanded })
I want to associate workflow ...
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How many days old process history we can see in Tridion workflow management tab
How many days old process history we can see in Tridion workflow management tab as shown in below diagram
Can somebody point me to some documentation for this.
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WebDAV URL getting changed into TCMID automatically in visio workflow designer
I am trying to use WebDAV URL in Visio external activity class to refer to a workflow assembley below is the code for same
AssemblyTbbId = "/webdav/020%20Asia%20Schema%20Master/Building%20Blocks/...
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Messages are not flowing from a Automatic activity to next manual decision activity + Workflow
I am using Tridion 2013 SP1
I have a Automatic Activity which publishes bundle to server. I have written below code in ActivityFinishData.
ActivityFinishData finishData = new ActivityFinishData()
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What is the benefit of setting minmum approval status at publication target
If i set minimum approval status at publication target level. Does it applies to all the item into that publication or only the items in Workflow or Bundle.
For Bundle there will be two cases for ...
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What happens when one of the item in Bundle is rejected at some aproval step
My question is specific to Bundle workflow.
Suppose i have a Bundle B having Workflow W attached to it.I have 3 components and 2 pages in Bundle B.My workflow has 7 step approval process through ...
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Can we lock the Bundle which is already in workflow
I have two question regarding the bundle workflow
If I start the workflow on a Bundle , can I add more items to this Bundle.
Can I Lock a bundle which is already in Workflow .
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WorkFlow for a set of number of components on a single Page
Suppose i have a Product page which has 5 different component attached to this for different section of product page like (header, spotlight,main section,highlight). Each component is made up of ...
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Not getting workflow version of the item (component) in core service
I am triggering a workflow on a component X by updating the component values.
In my C# External Activity class i am trying to get the changed value from the above component.Each time i am getting the ...
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Does Manual Decision activity uses VBScript? [duplicate]
We are using Tridion 2013 SP1 and implementing workflow.
We are getting the VB Script error explained below in Manual Decision activity.
WorkFlow Error in Tridion 2013 SP1
We have not implemented ...
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WorkFlow Error in Tridion 2013 SP1
I am getting the below mentioned error in workflow. I am using the fresh copy of Tridion 2013 SP1.
Tridion.ContentManager.TypeRegistration.WorkflowScriptTypeRegistrationException: Workflow Script ...
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