[Zope-CMF] Re: Bug when removing state in DCWorkflow

[Tres Seaver]

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Alexander Limi wrote:
> Can anybody familiar with DCWorkflow take a look at this?
> 
> http://trac.plone.org/plone/ticket/5067
> 
> It used to work, and is a classic workflow change operation that I 
> personally use all the time.
> 

Objects which have a no-longer-sane review_state have *never* had
reasonable behavior:  the workflow engine *can't* compute what to do
with them.  They have no transitions (which is why the workflow actions
are gone), and they can't be fixed by the "Update Security" button,
because there *is no state* to whose permission map they can be conformed.

With respect, this is a "Doctor! Doctor!" problem, to which the
appropriate response is "Take the spoon out of the glass before
drinking" (i.e., write the simple script which repairs the broken
instances *before* deleting the state).

Best,


Tres.
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