[Erp5-dev] Changing workflow association and restoring document's workflow state

[Jérome Perrin]

Łukasz Nowak a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I have to change some important workflow associations (eg. which
> provides simulation_state). I need documents to be moved to same state,
> as they had from association from former workflow.
> 
> I've experimented a little with removing workflow association from
> portal type, and I've seen that in Base_viewHistory it is possible to
> fetch history of workflow transitions from old association - even
> reindexing object do not remove this history.
> 
> I'll go with below scenario:
>  - create my own workflows (ventis_workflow)
>    - add special transition from starting state to all possible states
>    - ventis_workflow will have all states as original_workflow
>  - remove association from old workflow (original_workflow)
>  - fetch actual state from original_workflow's history which
> hasn't been deleted
>  - jump into fetched state using transition from ventis_workflow
> 
> Is my scenario good enough? I'll try to test it as best as possible,
> but any clues are welcome.

Another way is to directly hack the content of workflow_history on those 
documents. It's IMHO the easiest, especially if you want to keep history 
details (date, comments).

Jérome