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Write to table after Workflow button was clicked

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Posted on by David Tailor 836

Hello,

is there any way to write to a table once user clicked on Workflow button.

Ex: once a user click on Submit button of workflow, we need to change the value of a field on a custom table.

Best Regards,

David

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    Jonathan Halland 11,310 on at

    Hi David.

    Every button in your workflow is a physical menu-item. So just take a look at the workflow type in the AOT to find the submit menu-item, from there you can find which class is being executed. Within there you can do your updates. Typically the table's status will be set to "Submitted" from that class, but you can do any code you want. Be wary of doing this from other actions. Rather stick to the event handlers

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    Crispin John Augustine 37,081 on at

    example to Jonathan's comment:

    * PurchReqWorkflow.submit() - watch the ttsblock

    Jonathan, I prefer placing the Code here, instead of the event-handler (that Event handlers are associated with approval/Task, and based on their order in the WF configuration, it may not always be the same as "Submitted". Example: Consider an Approval Eventhandler, which follows a Task.)

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    Jonathan Halland 11,310 on at

    Hi Crispin.  (my comments not directly related to original question)

    Just to clarify on the above: I personally have no problem in customizing the "submit" to set status to "submitted", however anything beyond this should be kept to the workflow Event handlers (except for very specific reasons). My reasons for this is you're never sure how the config will be done, so if you code something into the "Approve" menu-button it may be clicked once if there is an single approval, or 100 times if there are multiple steps. Furthermore you can approve without clicking the "approve" button. E.G. Using the standard MS approve via e-mail, or mobile apps using the web services. You still need to keep config in mind when coding with the EH, but its certainly a bit more standardized.

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    David Tailor 836 on at

    Thank You Jonathan.

    Thanks also to Crispin for your contribution

    Regards,

    David

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