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angela's avatar
angela
Catalyst II
4 years ago

Is it possible to create custom ConversionServer tasks without external DLL?

Hi community, does anyone know if we can create custom ConversionServer without external DLLs? I want to run some "export files" task in the background if the expected file size is very large. I ...
Conversion Server
jeremy_biggs_capellaspace_com's avatar
jeremy_biggs_capellaspace_com
Ideator I
2 hours ago

Well, I think I worked it out :-) Instead of using the OnConvert event, I used OnBeforeConvert and just returned the task.Item on success:

Aras.ConversionFramework.Models.ConversionTask task = new
    Aras.ConversionFramework.Models.ConversionTask() {
    Item = this
};

...do the work...

return task.Item;

This approach did not seem to work with an OnConvert method.

The rule doesn't specify an OnConvert at all and appears to be just fine with that! Hope this helps someone down the line.