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dkinsley
Creator II
6 years ago
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Back up revision level and add "Obsolete" to the document description field

I have a C# server method that creates a new revision of a document then after some edits, moves the document to the "obsolete" state (not CN controlled). I would like to add script that will ...
  • AngelaIp's avatar
    AngelaIp
    6 years ago

    That doesn´t look like one of the default transitions handlers.

    You could remove the 'version' function block to prevent the new revisions:

       .Version((sourceItem, versionItem) => { versionItem.ItemNumber = sourceItem.ItemNumber; versionItem.RevSequence = sourceItem.RevSequence; versionItem.Revision = sourceItem.Revision; versionItem.Classification = sourceItem.Classification; });

    But I wonder if this Obsolete handler works at all? It doesn´t promote anything to Obsolete, but only versions the items.

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AngelaIp
Catalyst II
6 years ago

Hi,

can you give more background info? What do you mean with 'back up revision level'? Do you want to purge the item?

Add "obsolete" into the description field is not a big deal. You may customize your Method to grant the necessary permission and then write the property myitem.setProperty("description","Obsolete");

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dkinsley
Creator II
6 years ago

The only thing I have not been able to figure out is which part of the following script do I need to remove so the new affected item will have the same revision level as the original affected item. Because it is being obsoleted, i want the new affected item to be the same revision level and we just delete the files so they cannot be accidentally used.

#region Version affectedIdItem with action Obsolete
        {
            IList<aCNAffectedItem> affectedItemList =
            (from affectedItem in sortedAffectedItemList
             where
             affectedItem.Action == aCNAffectedItem.ActionType.Obsolete
             select affectedItem)
            .ToList();

            IList<ChangeControlledItem> versionedAffectedIdItemList =
                affectedItemList
                .Select(affectedItem => affectedItem.AffectedId)
                .ToList()
                .Version((sourceItem, versionItem) => { versionItem.ItemNumber = sourceItem.ItemNumber; versionItem.RevSequence = sourceItem.RevSequence; versionItem.Revision = sourceItem.Revision; versionItem.Classification = sourceItem.Classification; });

            versionedAffectedIdItemList.Unlock();

            affectedItemList = affectedItemList.Select((aCNAffectedItem affectedItem, int index) =>
            {
                affectedItem.NewId = versionedAffectedIdItemList[index];
                return affectedItem;
            }
            )
            .ToList();

            affectedItemList.Lock();
            affectedItemList.ApplyUpdate("new_id");
            affectedItemList.Unlock();
        }
        #endregion

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    AngelaIp
    Catalyst II
    6 years ago

    That doesn´t look like one of the default transitions handlers.

    You could remove the 'version' function block to prevent the new revisions:

       .Version((sourceItem, versionItem) => { versionItem.ItemNumber = sourceItem.ItemNumber; versionItem.RevSequence = sourceItem.RevSequence; versionItem.Revision = sourceItem.Revision; versionItem.Classification = sourceItem.Classification; });

    But I wonder if this Obsolete handler works at all? It doesn´t promote anything to Obsolete, but only versions the items.

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      dkinsley
      Creator II
      6 years ago

      This script only creates the new revision. There is additional script that promotes the new version to obsolete.

      If I remove the section you referenced, will the new version get a new item number and still have the same classification, revision level, and revision sequence?

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        AngelaIp
        Catalyst II
        6 years ago

        It´s still not clear what you want to do :) .

        Do you know want to get a new revision or do you want to prevent it? Or do you want a new item revision, but the previous (!) version shall become Obsolete? 

        'Version' is the Innovator term for creating a new Revision or Generation. So without version, you item revision will stay the same. In this case you will only have one Change Controlled item in the affected item. The Action Obsolete as far as I remember just changes the state property to Obsolete. If you want to get a new item_number, you will have to use "Renumber". 

        But when you already use a customized version of this Method, I cannot tell what will happen when you remove this block. The complete region is not part of the standard Method.