Simple Workflow - Overwrite Content Problem

peterstb — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:56:26 GMT

Hi All,I've recently been playing around with the simple workflow rules, in the Alfresco Explorer.I'm trying to simulate an experience where a user will open a piece of content, in a "DRAFT" space, using the "edit online" feature. Once they are satisfied with their changes, they will click on the i

Re: Simple Workflow - Overwrite Content Problem

richard_im — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:10:28 GMT

There's a couple of ways you can approach this:
1) Rethink your rules - Ultimately, if something is deemed published/public/approved/etc, one would essentially want to work off that document so, from a end user training perspective, they should perform a 'Check Out' of the document and perform the checkout to the draft folder. The draft folder would still have a rule to then move to Review. The difference is the rule in 'PROD' would need to check-in the doc (which is an available action).

2) Leaving things the way they are, you can apply a rule to 'Execute a Script' in the 'PROD' space. The script should essentially check to see if a doc with that name exists - if it does, update the content, if it doesn't create net new.

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