Trying to figure out what these flows are doing

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Ronnie
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    So I just joined a company not long ago. There are a few flows that close to the start node have a web run (or now a LM transaction node) that seems to do something with a flow workunit number, but I am unsure what exactly it is doing.

     

    The LTM transactions are doing this 

     

    _dataArea="" & _module="pfi" & _objectName="PfiWorkunit" & _actionName="Update" & _actionOperator="NONE" & _actionType="CreateUpdateDelete" & _pageSize="30" & PfiWorkunit="" & PfiFilterKey="No Routing" & FilterValue="NA"

     

    I cant tell why these are in the flows or what exactly they are doing to the workunit?

     

    The old way, would use a web run that used /bpm/workUnitBForm.do to do the same type of actions. 

     

    Can someone help me understand when and why someone would use these at the beginning of a flow??

    KK - Infor
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      Ronnie,
      As we can see, this call is updating the WorkUnit's category filtering key and values to "No Routing" & "NA" respectively. (assuming you have the dataArea parameter populated on your transaction)
      Would be difficult to understand that why the developer would use this approach; but right off the bat, I could see something like this for routing to subset of users in say Application Support team.
      Ronnie
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        Posted By KK on 07/06/2015 10:10 AM
        Ronnie,
        As we can see, this call is updating the WorkUnit's category filtering key and values to "No Routing" & "NA" respectively. (assuming you have the dataArea parameter populated on your transaction)
        Would be difficult to understand that why the developer would use this approach; but right off the bat, I could see something like this for routing to subset of users in say Application Support team.

        Thanks KK... I havent seen you around in a long time. You had designed some of the flows for us when I worked at Blount Hospital. 


        Ronnie
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          and yes, i am unsure why the data area portion came over blank...it should be -!appProdline- but in the less than greater than brackets. <!--appProdline-->

          KK - Infor
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            I sure do remember working with you, Missy and Kay!
            I have seen the conversion scripts or the builder drop off the '' (without the dashes) at times.

            Reach me at KK@ciber.com!