USER ACTION in PFI

Yes, you can do this. I have a couple of flows that use this method. I use a variable for the userid and reference that in my UserAction.

Thanks
I have tried same ,in User action tab called "User" here i have passed the user id as variable but once we approved it get out of the loop .
please help to resolve this issues.

Thanks
I have tried same ,in User action tab called "User" here i have passed the user id as variable but once we approved it get out of the loop .
please help to resolve this issues.

can you send me some example flow so it will be very help full..

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Yes ,you can use the same in Loop. While using the same in Data iterator (If you have a file say CSV )- You need two steps.
1) Break the file into lines.
2) Break the lines into words(for your case userids) and there you can use some variable for User ID and point it to user's inbasket.
John Henley's Process flow tutorial in this site is quite helpful you can refer the same.

Hi ,
Thanks for your reply
I am iterate from the database .
1 ) i have a table called XXX ,it has some 6-9 user id .
2) i am iterate the user id and try to passing it to User action node in PFI .

but it is on "in process " when i am checking in administer tool .
and if am running in designer ,i am getting time out error .
if am running with out selecting "run on server "then it is iterating one after another..

please help ,i am struck with this issues for a long time.

Thanks in advance

parthiv

Hi ,

could you send me the link of "John Henley's Process flow tutorial"

Thanks
parthiv

Can you please explain what kind of flow you are creating. It seems you are confused as to the direction of the flow when it is approve. So my question would be :1. what do you want to do after the workunit has been approved or rejected or unreleased? 2. What happens if the approver on vacation? Do you want to escalate to the next approver? 3. Are you sending emails for very actions made by the approver?
4. Do you have several UserAction nodes for different type of approver? 5. Are there criterias to consider when approving like item types , amounts, budgtting etc.

It sounds like you're cycling through a list of users in an external table (Data Iterator). If one user selects Approve, are you continuing the loop or going to a node to process the approval?

In the Data Iterator, are you parsing by Line or Delimitor String? If you're reading by Line you will need to use a Branch to determine if you've captured all of your data elements.

If you email your flow to me, I will evalute it for you.

Hi Sam,
I have only one user action node inside the sql loop.

According to the result set i m getting user id and position .each time the user id and position is different and i am passing to the user action node .the 1st if user approve the action ,then it will passed to the next user which is available in the result set and so on ....

Thank
parthiv

Are you saying that since you have this table with 6-9 user ids, you want all of these users to get the in-basket (at the same time?) and approve the workunit? Is this HR related flows. Can you explain the logic of your flow. Thanks.

Parthiv,
According to Lawson's best practices, having a User Action node in between a Data Iterator is not recommended. However, you can still use it with caution.

'but it is on "in process " when i am checking in administer tool .
and if am running in designer ,i am getting time out error .
if am running with out selecting "run on server "then it is iterating one after another.. '
- When it is running on the server in case 1 (assuming you are triggering it from the apps); it is supposed to stay in-progress status till it loops through all the users. You can check the user's inbasket or take an Inbasket action from the Administrator tool.

If this doesn't help; as David said above, feel free to email me your flow. Will have to take a look at it to see what's happening.

Cheers,
KK

Looks like you are using SQL node to read your XXX table and then use that user id to be used by your UserAction. As KK said this is not a good practice. I would go out of the loop then sent the information to the UserAction node. The problem here is knowing the proper order of approvers. Who's on first and the next in line. I would suggest enhancing your XXX table to include like sequence numbering or add a field as to who will be the next approver. Simply query your XXX table for the first approver, move the id's, seq nbr, next approver to a variable. Then when you repeat the query you will use the seq nbr or the next approver from the variables. You can also use a counter to see if every approver has done it then it's time to update the workunits.

Hi KK,
I hope u got my flow.
I am send one after the another.
1st user approve then i send to next ie 2 user to approve and so on......
Thank
Parthiv

I didn't get the flow yet. Have sent you my personal email address too. Rename the flow with a .xyz/ zip it and send it. The mail servers might block xml extension attachments.