Hi All, I'm writing a process flow that populates a benefit date based on some specific rules.  The flow looks for Personnel Actions of a specific type (REHIRE) that were processed in the previous day, determine the employee's break-in-service (rehire date - term date = break in service), and then populate a Benefit Date field with either the rehire date or a calculated date depending on the break-in-service. What I need to do is find out what the TERM-DATE was before the Personnel Action was...

Hello, I am trying to create a process flow that uses an AGS call to call PA52.1 and add a transaction. On PA52.1 you must inquire first before adding the transaction. Has anyone found a way to do this With Addins I populate a hidden field 'EMP-BLOCK' with a value that by-passes the 'Inquiry Complete - Add new values' message. Is is possible to do the same thing in the AGS call

Hello, I am looking for ideas on how I can get the email address of the approver of a requisition based on dollar amount and requesting location. I modified the delivered requisition approval flow, reqapproval1.xml, to determine the approver based on dollar amount. It will place the req for approval in the inbasket directly under the dollar amount rather than starting out at the lowest level and bumping through each level when it is approved. I also added an email notification to the re...

I have a date variable in ccyymmdd format which I need to add 7 days to, BUT I need the output back in ccyymmdd. When I use the addday(var1,numdays) in the designer I get the right future date back but its in a long format that I cant reconvert for use in an AGS call. Basically Im at 20100101 and I need to add a number (say 7) and get back 20100108.

I have a custom flow in 9.0.0.7 that uses three webruns. All the webrun’s are using bpm/xml/workUnitBForm.do to update 1- startDate & startTime, 2- returnID 3- closeDate & closeTime. The strange thing is, after step 1 has committed a start date and time (and other fields as well); steps 2 and 3 lose the startDate & Time values. Any suggestions on how I can get the start date & time to stay committed on the workunit record

For the delivered flow of rqcreatelineapproval, there are several variables in the Variables tab within the WorkObject to rqlineapproval such as: RL_COMPANY RL_REQ_NUMBER etc... We're trying to implement the line level approval for requisitions, not header. So rqcreatelineapproval triggeres also the rqlineapproval flow and passes the variables to it. We've got everything set up and running and when an order is created and released, the work unit error log is having trouble and problems re...

I have placed a variable in the user section for reminders, and the clickled on user. The send reminders to all userd that did not take an action is checked. Without this checked, the default email on the white space, properties is what is sent. When checked it sends the reminder msg as the body for the email. The variable is enclosed ie: . I'm finding that its sending an email to more users than just the userid in the variable. Eevn without the, 'ALL users that did not take an action box...

I notice in the LSF9 environment, there are workunits without the userid populated...Is there a patch out for this..Has anyone noticed this...

I am trying to add new users in a flow using the Resource Update node. It keeps failing with the return message of 'Unable to store USERNAME object, creation failed. Original Exception: Could not create object of type People'. I'm not sure what the problem is. I can add users using the security administrators piece without any issues.

We had an issue with a workflow table (WFACTVAR) that had grown very large and took hours to reorg. As a short cut, the dba issued a sql command that deleted everyting in that file. Now I have workunits in other tables (i.e. WFACTIVITY) and processflow doesn't know they exist. I would like to clean up the orphan records and put in the move/purge history script provided by Lawson. We only have about a half dozen processflows but more are on the way and I would like to get this under control. ...

If I upload a logo file to the process flow server is there a url I can use in the HTML email to display it

Hi All, Is anyone running Transformation Extender 8.2 (or another verstion) on Windows Server 2003 64-bit We've put all the ProcessFlow pieces required for that hardware / software level, but can't get testGroupBCI to run clean. Seems to be a configuration thing with TX, didn't know if anyone had encountered something similar. Thanks!

I have a command that i want to execute from SysCommand (windows server) hat references a unc path with spaces in it. I cant just surround the path with quotes because the syscommand executes this: su -p ***** domain\USER -c 'cmd.exe /C xxx' where xxx is my command ive tried all different methods but cant seem to make it work. I've tried double quotes, single quotes, prefixing the quote with slash and backslash, etc my work around is a fileaccess node to write my command to my own bat/...

I have a question regarding PFlow. I have no experience with this product. I have an existing environment in which I wish to set up an additional data area. Let's call the environment TEST, the current data area TEST and the new data area to be added TEST2. Is there a way to have specific PFlow users access the new data area TEST2, and default/assign other users to data area TEST Kind of like how a Portal user may set preferences for data area If so, how, and are there any ramifications I ...

Using PF Professional; My first time using the HR UA node although i've used the user action node in the past successfully. Looking in the activity log, I see this message: 'oAction NotFound' mean and it's also listing me a string variable that I assigned just before the HR UA node as 'NONE'. Has anyone else seen this before

Hello, I am using reqapproval.xml and have made modifications to it to get it to work for our company. One more change that I have been asked to make is to allow different levels of dollar amounts for different users. For example, requester 1 works in the library and usually would not need to order more than 500 dollars. Requester 2 works in Sterile Processing and on a regular basis orders items that can total 3000 dollars or more. I need to be able to set the flow up to allow requeste...

Hello, We are receiving the below error message from flows. This doesn't occur for all flows so it is making it very difficult to trouble shoot. Any ideas what could be causing the problem, or a method to determine the problem. I have checked the security logs, ios.log, and SystemOut.log. None of them have any information leading to the cause of the problem. If I rerun the work unit manually it completes just fine. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks. ErrorLog in Pro...

I am using the delivered trigger for EMSS to generate an email but what I need to do also is make sure the address is capitalized, it's an HR thing, it seems though that the update to the address field has already taken place when the trigger kicks off the flow. I know I can capitalize the address with Jscript but I don't know how to do it with the delivered flow We are using PFI and are new to using the flows. Any help is appreciated. Daniel Director, MIS Special School District

Gurus: I am able to use the Design Studio DME API builder, but when I try and use the ProcessFlow DMI API, which in my environment run on the same web server, my connection fails. I thought that Design Studio and ProcessFlow used the same DME IOS

I am writing a new process flow, that does the following: When an invoice is entered onto AP20, the purchase order linked to it is looked up in POLINE, each POLINE is evaluated if an ITEM-TYPE of S is found, then a hold flag of Y is placed in APPAYMENT and a HLD-CODE of APAP is placed in APHLDINV. Someone will be emailed with the ability to approve or deny the invoice. If they choose approve, the Hold Flag will be removed and the HLD-CODE will be removed as well. What is the best way to...

Hi all, I used the Query node 'Build' to create the string. I can easily use 'Test API' with Test Results. I can't seem to remember how to test it in Internet Explorer by adding the lawson portal URL. Here is the string with value: PROD=TEST&FILE=PAJOBREQ&INDEX=PJRSET1&KEY=0001=000009244&FIELD=OPENINGS&OUT=CSV&DELIM=~ Our IOS host name is: SERVER:80 ProcessFlow Web URL: http://SERVER:80/bpm/daservlet How do I include the URL into the string to run in IE. ...

Is there a way to run a pf query for a date range instead of just for one day Example: querying for all employees who transferred in the last 7 days.

Please Help! Is anyone able to advise me on how I can use a Process Flow (Integrator) Resource node to identify the Company assigned on a users _COMPANY service as defined on their user profile within Security Adminstrator (LSF9) We have a subsidiary company whose employees had access to our Lawson system, but the subsidiary was sold so I need to deletee their profiles/access. I thought the easiest way to get rid of their profiles would be to identify them using a Resource Query in Proces...

Hello, I am looking for information on how to reference the individual xml data elements retuned from a web service call using the PFI Web Service node. i.e. how can I assign the xml data element to my internal variable in an Assign Node. My Web Serivce Node ran fine. It returns all the data. I just need to get to them. Do I use XML Parser Node to do this Any examples would be helpful. thanks.

If you're getting one of those annoying DME connection error with user lawson messages when running your flow on the server but it works just fine within PF Designer then I have a possible solution for you (I just discovered this for a client). If the DME has a SELECT statement with an Escape character (3D for the = character) then replace it with the normal character. Replace SELECT=STATUS3D1 with SELECT=STATUS=1 When I did this my DME call worked on the server.