[Product-Developers] Re: How to change workflow states on all objects in a container?
Raphael Ritz
r.ritz at biologie.hu-berlin.de
Mon Mar 30 13:12:12 UTC 2009
Alex Clark wrote:
[..]
> Strange, though, even if I pass the transition I get the same error:
Strange indeed :-(
>
> Changing workflow state on /Plone/todo-list/do-stuff/do-this-first from not_done to done.
'not_done' and 'done' are the ids of two states in that workflow, right?
> > /srv/todo/Products/todo/events/handler.py(19)changeWorkflowStates()
> -> wf.doActionFor(obj,review_state,wf_id='todo_list_workflow')
> (Pdb) wf.doActionFor(obj,review_state,wf_id='todo_list_workflow')
> 2009-03-30 08:21:11 INFO Plone
> Changing workflow state on /Plone/todo-list/do-stuff/do-this-first from not_done to done.
> *** Unauthorized: You are not allowed to access 'done' in this context
> (Pdb) wf.doActionFor(obj,'done',wf_id='todo_list_workflow')
> *** Unauthorized: You are not allowed to access 'done' in this context
Do you also have a transition called 'done' in your workflow?
If so, maybe that's confusing the workflow tool? (just guessing)
>
> Could it be that I don't have the right context?
As long as the context is acquisition aware or otherwise suited
to have 'getToolByName' find the tool you should be fine.
> Since I'm trying to change wf state on
> a child object… or because of how I acquired my wf tool maybe:
>
> (Pdb) wf
> <WorkflowTool at /Plone/portal_workflow used for /Plone/todo-list/do-stuff>
> (Pdb) obj
> <Todoitem at /Plone/todo-list/do-stuff/do-this-first>
>
> Something's funny here.
Keep us posted on any further insights you may have.
Raphael
>
> Alex
>
>>> Raphael
>>>
>>>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> I'm starting to suspect my workflow is broken, after poking around
>>>> Module Products.DCWorkflow.DCWorkflow, line 283, in doActionFor
>>>> it raises:
>>>> raise WorkflowException(_(u'Object is in an undefined state.'))
>>>> which makes no sense to me.
>>>>
>>>>> Hedley
>>
>
>
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