Conditional workflow status delay
Step Plugin for managing the delay of workflow status changes
Overview
Introduction
This documentation explains the installation, configuration, and use of the plugin. This plugin checks if a workflow has reached a specific status. Only if this is the case, a defined work step will be closed, and the next step will be opened.
Installation
To use the plugin, the following files must be installed:
To use the plugin, it must be selected in a workflow step with the following settings:
Overview and Functionality
When the process reaches the configured step, a check is performed to see if the conditions are met. If this is the case, the step is closed immediately, and the next task can be processed. If not, the task remains in progress. The condition is checked again every night until it is fulfilled.
The condition is only considered met if all configured rules have been fulfilled.
Configuration
The plugin is configured in the file plugin_intranda_step_delay_workflowstatus.xml
as shown here:
General parameters
The <config>
block can occur repeatedly for different projects or work steps in order to be able to perform different actions within different workflows. The other parameters within this configuration file have the following meanings:
Further parameters
In addition to these general parameters, the following parameters are available for further configuration:
The <condition>
field contains the rules to be checked. Both properties and steps can be checked. The fields within are repeatable to define multiple rules. In this case, all rules must be met for the condition to be considered fulfilled.
In the <property>
field, the properties to be checked are defined. The name
attribute specifies the property name, and value
specifies the value to be checked. The type of check can be defined in type
. There are four types available:
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