Problems with my own workflow

Friday 10 December 2004 6:37:46 am

Hi

I am trying to write my first workflow for EZ. But I find it very difficult, firstly because there is no real way of debuging it.. For instance now when I Edit an workflow and insert my own Event I get an:

Error: eZWorkflow Dec 10 2004 15:21:03
Undefined attribute 'type', cannot get

This is after my constructor in my own workflow has been executed. What I find very confusing is that when I search within the eZWorkflow class the error message is not found. so I suspect that it is crashing somewhere else, secondly I do not find the message very informative.

Probably needless to say but when adding the workflow to an trigger nothing is working.

Hopefully someone might point me in an direction. I have included the source for my event below here:

<?php

define( "EZ_WORKFLOW_TYPE_PLACEUSERS_ID", "placeusers" );
include_once("kernel/classes/ezworkflowtype.php");

class placeusersType extends eZWorkflowEventType
{
    function placeusersType() {
        $this->eZWorkflowEventType( EZ_WORKFLOW_TYPE_PLACEUSERS_ID, "Placeusers" );
        eZDebug::writeNotice("Start placeusers","Constructor");
    }

    function execute( &$process, &$event ) 
    {
		eZDebug::writeNotice("Start","Workflow placeusers");
    }		
}	

eZWorkflowEventType::registerType( EZ_WORKFLOW_TYPE_PLACEUSERS_ID, "placeuserstype" );

?>

Hmm no one know anything about workflow.. I am really desperate here. I have found that the error happens in: "eZPersistentObject" function &attribute( $attr ) with parameter named "type".

Wednesday 15 December 2004 6:18:42 am

Hi Eirik

Thanks for responding. In my execute I have:
<cod>eZDebug::writeNotice("Start","Workflow placeusers");
</code>

But I never see this debug message, neither when viewing the register page, or when viewing the post registration page. I have added the workflow and then connected it to content publish before/after. As I have from previously postings observed that it would also work for users.

Cheers
Tore

Thursday 16 December 2004 1:55:01 am

Hi

Thanks Eirik, I tried to insert an mail function as shown below:

 function execute( &$process, &$event ) 
    {
		eZDebug::writeNotice("Start placeuserstyrpeexecute","Workflow placeusers");
		
		$mail = new eZMail();
		$mail->setReceiver("torecs@sfe.uio.no");
			
		eZDebug::writeNotice("receiver: $receivers_email","Workflow clubapplication");
			
		$mail->setSubject("test");
		$mail->setBody("Hei dette er meg");
		$headerArray[] = array( 'name' => 'Content-Type',
                             		'content' => 'text/html' );
		$mail->headers($headerArray);
		$mail->setSender("torecs@sfe.uio.no");
		$mailResult = eZMailTransport::send( $mail );
			
		eZDebug::writeNotice("receiver: $mailResult","Emailversand");
		
		return EZ_WORKFLOW_TYPE_STATUS_ACCEPTED;
    }		

I never get any mail (do you know why, my standard system mail is working fine cause I do get the new user registred email).. But I notice that if I enter something wrong in the above code, for instance not initalizing mail, then I get an error when the user registers in my workflow. So it seems to be executed... After searching my logs (files in log) I have can see my debug messages as weel, they are found in the notice.log. Why dosent they appear on screen.

Cheers
Tore

Thursday 16 December 2004 3:04:34 am

Yes maybee, I am new to this workflow stuff.. I am just so glad that I am moving forward again.. Thank you very much Eirik.. You have really helped me here... I think my solution is, if I manage to make this workflow much more sustainable after I leave. Secondly, I think that learning how to make EZ workflows is going to hugely increase my possibilities with EZ.

However, again I have had huge problems with EZ due to poor docs... How was I to know that writenotice in my workflows did not write to the debug table in the browser.

Tusen Takk Eirik
Tore