[Zope-CMF] Updating workflow variables from within scripts

[Adam Fields]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:11:54PM +0100, Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Yes I'd increment a variable in the transition looping back to the
> initial state. To increment a var you'd use something like (see more doc
> in doc/expressions.stx):
>    python:status.myvar + 1
> 
> (DCWorkflow.Expression.createExprContext has the full expression context
> definition if the doc is not enough.)

Thanks, I'll try that.

> > 2) When a child object completes its workflow, I'd like to have it set
> >    a flag in its parent object telling it that the content contained
> >    within is ready. So, for example, if I have an article and an
> >    image within it, I'd like for the article to know whether the image
> >    is "done" or not.
> 
> The child could provoke a given transition on the parent that changes a
> variable.

I'm not clear on the mechanism to invoke a transition in another
workflow. Can you elaborate on that some more? Do you mean something
like what happens in content_status_modify (which is the only
mechanism by which I've been able to execute a transition, other than
automatic triggers)?


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				- Adam

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