RE: Using workflow relevant data and process formal parameters inside tool agents

Hi Geeta,

Thanks for your reply.

The reason for not wanting to use only the AppParameters[] is the
following:
As I understand, and observed when debugging the process, the
AppParameters array contains only the application formal parameters and
their actual values (In addition to the Extended Attributes section of
the application in index [0])
This forces me to define every possible parameter that my tool will ever
need to use as an application formal parameter.

For example, I've created a toolagent for running Unix Shell scripts.
This tool agent has one parameters that is always needed - the script
name.
There are parameters that I keep on the workflow context that I may or
may not need my tool agent to use depending on the specific activity.
I don't want to pass them every time I call the tool because they are
not always needed.

This is why I'm looking for a simple way of accessing the workflow
context data.

You mentioned that I can get this info from an Activity object but I
don't see one that is passed to the toolagent.
Is there any other way to get it?

Thanks

Ran


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {Spam?} [shark] Using workflow relevant data and process
formal parameters inside tool agents



[email protected] wrote on 08/10/2005 10:09:58 AM:

> Hello,
>
> I need to use parameters from the workflow relevant data and the
> process formal parameters in my tool agent code.
> I saw that the AppParameters[] array passed to the tool agent only
> contains parameters that are defined as the tools formal parameters
> and their actual values.
> Is thee any way of getting other parameters in the workflow context?
> (read only access is fine).

If you have access to an activity object then you can get the map
activity.process_context(). This can give you access to the wrds... But
why would you not want to use the AppParameters[]? It seems to me that
is their function...

Regards,
Geeta



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