Implement Parallel workflows in UCM

Question

Hi,
Requirement : Whenever a content is checked in by the contributor, it needs be approved by members from two different teams parallely before proceeding to the next step.
Suppose lets say the content needs to be approved by 2 groups 1 and 2 and each grp has 2 members. For the content to go to the next step atleast 1 member from each group has to approve it. Can you please help me to achieve this functionality. I tried the one which was mentioned in oracle docs .. but cud not get it implemented.
My workflow details:
Two steps - Reviewer and Approver
Reviewer Step has 4 users.
MIN Approvers : 2
Code in Entry Step:
<$wfSet("set1", "0")$>
<$wfSet("set2", "0")$>
<$group1 = "user1, user2, user3,"$>
<$wfSet("group1", group1)$>
<$group2 = "user8, user9, user10,"$>
<$wfSet("group2", group2)$>
Code in Update Step:
<$if wfAction like "APPROVE"$>
<$if strIndexOf(wfGet("group1"), dUser) >=0$>
<$set1 = toInteger(wfGet("set1"))+1$>
<$wfSet("set1", set1)$>
<$endif$>
<$if strIndexOf(wfGet("group2"), dUser)>=0$>
<$set2 = toInteger(wfGet("set2"))+1$>
<$wfSet("set2", set2)$>
<$endif$>
<$endif$>
Code in Exra Exit Step:
toInteger(wfGet("set1")) >= 1 AND
toInteger(wfGet("set2")) >= 1
Regards,
Boopathy

Answer 1

First of all, parallel processing in workflows in UCM in general is impossible - an item can be in a single state only (you cannot 'fork' the workflow and synchronize it again to a single flow). You could do this in BPEL workflows, though.
Particularly, your use could be faked - a simple workflow step could serve as an approval step for both groups.
One implementation could look like:
Min. approvers - ALL
In Update, or Additional Exit Condition you will create an idocscript code, which will check whether necessary number of users from each group approved the document. You will most likely need the idocscript function wfComputeStepUserList, which "Computes the list of users from the current step in the workflow."