Advancing wfs to specific tasks through script

Question

Hello,
Is there a batch way (i.e. through a script) to advance workflows to specific tasks?
Two alternatives were considered:
1) Through the java admin applet, to expedite each workflow to the desired task. This is much too slow for us.
2) Through the wf_engine.CompleteActivity command, but this requires for the specific activity to be notified; it cannot be performed on any activity but only on the notified ones. So it is useless in our case.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Vassilis,
If you are using Workflow 2.6.2 on 9iR2 you can access the workflow manager from the enterprise manager utility bulk process work items.
1. Workflow Manager -> Work Items (in the Related Links section at the bottom of the page) -> View(Errored Work Items).
2. Select one of these work item types, and click View Details. Select one of the work item activity stages (ie. the activity name where the workflow errored) and click View Details. Now you will see a list of all the work items that had errored at that activity.
3. For an individual work item, you can abort, retry or even launch the workflow monitor. But, the big benefit for a System Administrators is that they can now Abort All or Retry All on all of the workflows at that stage.
4. The same kinds of administrator mass actions are available for active, suspended and deferred workflows as well.
Hope this helps..
Raja