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Does Alfresco execute rules sequentially or concurrently?

robl — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 13:39:59 GMT

I'm working on a creating a scripted rule for a folder that should update a counter (integer) property defined on an aspect associated with the folder.The idea is that someone drops a file/document into the folder, some business logic runs then the document is moved to another folder. The final ste

Re: Does Alfresco execute rules sequentially or concurrently?

afaust — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:23:46 GMT

As long as you do not specify that your rule(s) run "in the background", then the rule(s) will be run sequentially (in the order they are triggered, not the order they are listed in the "Manage Folder Rules" action). Any rule run in the background (asynchronously after commit) may run concurrently with other such rules (or may not - depending on how much load is on the system and if asynchronous processing threads are sufficiently available).

Re: Does Alfresco execute rules sequentially or concurrently?

robl — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:53:52 GMT

Thanks Axel Faust‌. That answers my question.

The folder rule will help for the near future. I may try re-implementing this as a behavior for version 2 of this solution.