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How to restart the workflow

Confluence User - 16 Mar, 2017

Hi, Currently I have a process with multi-level approval activity. 

For example: Requester -> Manager A, Department Head, CEO, 

In the case where there will be editing during the process running  (i.e: Pending for Department Head's approval), the requester can actually edit the form. In this case, What is the better way to restart the workflow from Manager A approval again and also aborted the existing running process. 

 

 

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Confluence User •
16 Mar, 2017 •
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Hi Oz Boo

  1. If you don't want the requester to edit the form after submission, set his view of the form to readonly in userview. Meaning CRUD = readonly for requester category menus.
  2. You can abort the existing running process in Monitor Process screen but note that this will not delete the original form record. (/jw/web/console/monitor/running). 
  3. The easiest way to restart the workflow from Manager A is to submit a new process record.

 

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16 Mar, 2017 •
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I'm actually looking for the automatically way (Bean Shell programming in the post processing tool) to submit a new process, but i'mstruggling to aborting the existing process instance. 

Case 1:

workflowManager.processStart(process.getId(), null, null, null, recordId, false);

result: I'm getting a new process submitted for Manager A, but the existing instance is still running.

Case 2:
workflowManager.processCopyFromInstanceId("349_DeviationApprovalV3_DA_process",process.getId(),true);

Result: Existing process instance was terminated, but new process instance was created with the task was assigned to Department Head

 

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