How to derive the notification id from APEXP WF when creating Expanse report in 11i

Question

Hi,
I am new to WF, I need to derive the notification id when creating AP Expanse report, I can achieve this by creating trigger on WF_NOTIFICATIONS table, but I need to derive this by creating custom procedure and that procedure need to be called from WF node. Here I am not getting when this notification id getting creating into WF_NOTIFICATION table.
I have created custom procedure as below and calling this procedure from WF node.
PROCEDURE insert_notif_details( p_item_type    IN VARCHAR2,
                                p_item_key    IN VARCHAR2,
                                p_actid        IN NUMBER,
                                p_funmode    IN VARCHAR2,
                                p_result     OUT NOCOPY VARCHAR2) IS
BEGIN
        lv_report_header_id := p_item_key;
        l_notificationID    := wf_engine.context_nid;
        BEGIN
                 WHILE (l_notificationID IS NULL)
                 LOOP
                    DBMS_LOCK.sleep(1);
                    BEGIN
                     SELECT notification_id
                       INTO l_notificationID
                       FROM apps.wf_notifications
                      WHERE item_key = TO_CHAR(lv_report_header_id)
                        AND notification_id =(SELECT MAX(notification_id)
                                                FROM apps.wf_notifications
                                               WHERE item_key = TO_CHAR(lv_report_header_id));
                    EXCEPTION
                      WHEN no_data_found THEN
                           l_notificationID := NULL;
                           l_error_message := SQLERRM;
                      WHEN others THEN
                           l_notificationID := NULL;
                           l_error_message := SQLERRM;
                   END;
                 END LOOP;
        END;

Answer 1

Hi,
I'm not sure I'm reading your requirements correctly - do you want the process to move on as soon as anyone responds to it, or move on once everyone has responded to it?
In the first case, it sounds like what you really need is a notification activity, which requires a response, sent to the role (or create an adhoc role which is assigned to everyone assigned to role 1 and role 2). As soon as one person responds to it, the notification is closed and the process moves on.
In the second case, you should do the same but expand the roles. You will then need to write a post notification function to tally the votes and determine when to move on - have a look at the standard voting activity for an example of how to do it.
HTH,
Matt
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