[Zope-CMF] programmatically change workflow state

[Tres Seaver]

Gitte Wange wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 August 2001 13:25, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> 
>>>Does this look correct ? It's a bit DCWorkflow-centric unfortunately,
>>>because WorkflowTool doesn't expose any method to force a state change.
>>>
>>Oops, I just found WorkflowTool.setStatusOf ... I guess it answers this
>>part of the question :-)

> 
> I just tried this because I am attaching a memer picture for each member. And 
> it want it to have status=pending when it has been added (so the members 
> don't have to find the picture object themselves and submit it).
> 
> But there are no pending reviews afterwards and when I try to view the 
> picture object I get an error. 
> 
> So .. any good hints??
> 
> All I have done was to change the security of the method setStatusOf in the 
> WorkflowTool module (from private to public) and then call it.
> Something I have missed ?


'setStatusOf' was private because it was intended to be called
only by other "machinery";  you likely want 'doActionFor', passing
the "transition name", as 'setStatusOf' is supposed to pass more
data than you are probably using.


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