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IIS Deadlock

khemraja — Thur, 11 Mar 2010 21:24:54 GMT

We are running 7.5.1 and we are getting the following error in the Application Event Log a number of times per week:

ISAPI 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll' reported itself as unhealthy for the following reason: 'Deadlock detected'.

The only way to resolve is to reboot the server. I'm very desperate. I'm working with Metastorm Support right now, but they've come up with nothing so far.

If you have any ideas please email me at anand.khemraj@fmc-law.com

Thanks, Anand.

Forum: Engine

Metastorm integration with HMTL form

vikramparmar — Thur, 11 Mar 2010 11:22:28 GMT

Hi there,

I am currently using Metastorm 7.5, and would like to use HTML forms to capture user input. I have followed all the steps as detailed in the help file to map feilds between the HTML and Metastorm forms, but i am failing to figure out how i can initiate a process (i.e. how to start up a html page and submit data to Metastorm).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Vikram.

Forum: Designer

Metastorm BPM & C# Developer, London, UK

Jerome — Thur, 11 Mar 2010 10:31:44 GMT

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Metastorm BPM Consultant with strong C# Development Experience - London - up to 45k

Our client has a fantastic opportunity to work within their very well respected and growing organisation (who has won multiple awards for their staff satisfaction between 2007 - 2009) with huge potential for career growth. Furthermore, immediately, the successful .NET Metastorm candidate will gain highly valuable finance exposure within the lucrative Asset Management/Fund Management space.

This firm is one of the fastest growing fund management companies in the city and as such needs a new Metastorm BPM consultant with strong C# and SQL development technologies experience to join their ever growing team.

Position Overview
Our client has developed a number of internal business systems in-house using Metastorm BPM and C#. These include the core CRM system and application processing systems.

As the company grows there are increasing demands on the development team and a role has therefore become available for someone with experience in the following technologies:
* Metastorm BPM (e-work) (At least 2 years experience)
* C# or VB.NET
* SQL Server

The role will encompass both development and support of existing business systems.
The core processing elements of the systems are developed using Metastorm BPM however there are increasingly integration pieces that are written in .NET.

This position is immediately available and interviews will be arranged within a week of application for the successful candidates.

Unfortunately, we are not able to consider candidates that do not meet all the requirements of the role as outlined in this advertisement.

If you do meet all the requirements, we respectfully request that you submit your Word CV for initial consideration. We aim to respond to all such candidates as quickly as possible.

Forum: Jobs and Contracts

Passing objects into scripts

jfile — Thur, 11 Mar 2010 01:07:06 GMT

ok, I'm going nuts trying to figure this one out.

I created a simple method which accepts a process data obect:

public static void SetLastName(Process003.Declarations.Process003Data pb)

{

}

Then in the event visual script for an on-start stage, I'm calling the promoted script above. I pass in Process003Data1 as the parameter and the designer accepts it. But when I go to deploy it's telling me there's an internal error within the deployment service.

I checked the app log and it says per the attachment. Anyone else come across something like this?

Forum: Metastorm BPM 9 Designer

SyncProcessData in version 9

jfile — Thur, 11 Mar 2010 00:37:30 GMT

I have an assembly with classes which takes a SyncProcessData argument. In previous versions, I would pass the ework SyncProcessData value that was being passed into my JScript.NET functions such as...

public static function ResolveRoles( ework: SyncProcessData, args: Object );

objRoles.Dispose();

}catch(err){

JLog(err.description);

}

}

Since this parameter is not explicitly passed, or at least not in the same way other arguments are passed when the function is called from the designer, where and how is the instance of SyncProcessData being created? If I try creating an instance in code in version 9, it requires an IntPtr argument which fails at runtime. Maybe I'm missing a piece of the puzzle here?

Forum: Metastorm BPM 9 Designer

Send to Back does not work with Rules.

loophole64 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:29:58 GMT

I often have a scenerio where I want to create a 1 pixel border around some controls. I put two rules on the form, one two pixels taller and wider than the other, with the larger one being the color of the border I want and the smaller one being white, so that it looks like a border.

the problem is that once published, which rule is above the other does not match how it is set in the designer. I can send a rule to back till I'm blue in the face, and while it appears to be in the back in designer, it's not in the back on the form after publishing.

Does anyone have a work around for this, or a better way of doing things that avoids the problem?

Forum: Designer

users can mess up my nicely ordered grid

Jerome — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:59:48 GMT

I have a nice grid. It took me many hours developing the complex set of UNION statement that populate it. It shows lots of nice 'tree-like' levels - cliking on a 'parent' node (row) expands the 'branches' below.

I like it.

Then a user comes along and stuffs the entire thing up and makes it completely unsuable by selecting one of the column captions 8-(

I can't see any possible to to prevent it, either. It does revert to the original order when you select a row (the only way to make it do so), but that is unintuitive anyway.

Forum: Metastorm BPM 9 Design Flaws

Should anyone be selling version 7 now?

Jerome — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:50:16 GMT

If a new customer turns up, what reason would there be to sell them version 7? As far as I can tell, the whole system would have to be rewritten, and it would not benefit from any of the new features that make version 9 well worth using. I have covered these, but the main issues affecting design of new systems will be Business Objects (abstracted from the consumer of the data), and connectors (allowing futher abstraction). In fact in most cases these will have to be rebuilt.

So, given these issues, and many others, with migration from 7 to 9, is it even ethical to promote version 7 for new clients? I'd be grateful for any insight into this from existing and new customers alike.

Forum: Metastorm BPM 9 Other

Raise Flag in VB Script

binju007 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:07:44 GMT

Hi,
I have tried to raise a flag through VBScript using

" ework.RaiseFlag "FlagName",newEfolderId "

It is raising the exception "Unknown error 0xE20B000C, at line 169, character 6. Source: Unavailable.' Procedure Script call failed. "

But when I am trying to raise the flag using hard coded folderId, it is working fine

eg:- ework.RaiseFlag "FlagName","0000000000000000000000000003903"

But I want to raise the flag in a for loop for some n number of times. How can i achieve the same?

Forum: Designer

Folder Slow to open from folder grid

Kiwi — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:37:30 GMT

Hello All,

I am having performance issues with one of our Metastorm 7.5 global applications (using Oracle 10g).

Some users are reporting that folders opened from a folder grid are taking up to 15 min to open in some locations.

Has anyone had a similar issue and if so, are there any recommendations on how to resolve the issue (performance tuning)?

Thanks!

Forum: Engine

Grid Settings/Width Messy

StuBarnwell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:25:19 GMT

Hi there,

I'm having trouble doing something quite basic with grids which is quite annoying when this was just child's play in version 7.6. Basically.. i have a grid. display some info... i have my business object to display in the grid... i have 3 hidden columns: WorkDataID, eFolderID and eUsername.. then the rest are read only... and have their own widths set perfect in the designer. I know the widths etc used to move about and it took some fiddle to get things working in the older versions but... when i make the first 2 or 3 columns hidden.. it makes some other columns hidden also! Which is very annoying.
and then mess's up the width of the others also.

So i have:
WorkDataID, eFolderID, eUserName, Project, Work Description, Mon, Tue, Wen, Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun, OT

If i make WorkDataID and eFolderID and eUsername hidden.. all fine in designer.. but as you can see.. load in browser.. it looks a mess with Project and Work Description columns missing also, even though they are set to read only with the days mon tue etc.

Screen shot below from designer and browser...

Any ideas? I must be doing something wrong.... this is quite annoying :o(

Forum: Metastorm BPM 9 Designer

Random Number?

hewstone — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:52:14 GMT

I want to set a variable to be a random number from 1 to 10. I have tried to use VB code put cant get it to work. The code is shown below.

Im wondering if there was a way of creating a random number?

Public Sub RandomNum()
    Randomize
    intResult = Int((10 * Rnd) + 1)
    eworkSetField "txtRandomNum","",intResult
end sub

Forum: Designer

ECL for .NET

masroorahmedkhan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:22:35 GMT

hi ,

i want to know where can i find Enterprise component Library for .NET as i wnat to build some pages to be build which will interact with BPMS from .NEt.

Forum: Designer

Load a parameter from an External BPM URL

greg — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:49:07 GMT

Hi All,
I have a process where the initiating action is initiated by users from an intranet, so it uses the Metastorm BPM external URL for a Blank form, as per the Web Author's Guide.

I'm now making some changes, and I'd like to add my own URL parameter
(e.g. ...Map=Test&Client=External&RID=Blah....)
to the end of the string, that's read in via a form Onload clientscript and can be used to set certain fields on the form according to the value of the parameter. This way I can have several URL's pointing to the same initiating for, prepopulating the form according to the particular URL clicked.

However, I've discovered that while I can reference the standard parameters as listed in the Guide, e-work filters out my own custom parameter (it changes the URL..). Has anyone found a way around this, or if not has a solution to achieve a similar goal? The server is Metastorm BPM 7.6SR2...

Cheers
Greg

Forum: Clients

Business Object refs in libraries are not available in solutions

Jerome — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:33:02 GMT

First, let me state that this is for Business Object references in C# code. They are all available from the Expression Builder and the Toolbox.

Here's the scenario: I want to provide a BO in a library, with some extended functionality around it. I want to allow any process using the BO to pass in instance of the BO to a function, and appropriate things get done to it. This seesm like a sensible way to go about things, I think you would agree?

OK, so we write the code, all is good. I can pass in the BO as per the light edition of the documentation, and read and the properties, as you'd expect. All is OK here, then.

I then use the library in a procedure. No joy. It breaks because the context cannot be found. I add the fill context to the parameter type, as I recall you have to. Still no joy.

I try Intellisense. The context is not there. Other library contexts are gone too (at times). It is so badly broken that I even get a complete failure to find Metastorm.Runtime.Models at one point! You may have to close and open the Designer again to get the full effect - sometimes the context is there, but the added offending function is just Missing In Action.

I comment out the offending function that takes a BO, and redeploy. All is well once more.

Hmmmm.

I have a look at a version without the offending function, and voila! There is no Business Object in the library context. (see image 1) That would explain it all.

The context if fully available in the library and passes validation (see image 2), and even Intellisense works a treat there (see image 3).

So is this a bug or a feature? If a feature, it is an extremely limiting one. If a bug, I hope it gets fixed PDQ as it will make any kind of reuse very limited in functionality.

Sample attached with working and non-working libraries.

Forum: Metastorm BPM 9 Faults