topic Re: reconcile and post in ArcGIS Workflow Manager Questions

reconcile and post

ChuanshengRen — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:40:38 GMT

Can WMX perform a reconcile and post operation in ArcMap instead of just providing a procedural step to remind users to do so?
If yes, how do I set up that step?

Thanks

Learner

Re: reconcile and post

FraserHand — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:52:48 GMT

Hi There,
There are a couple of options available to you - you could write a custom step and do it in code, or create a step to call a gp tool (from the LaunchGPTool type) or python script to do it from there. There is a GP tool called Reconcile Version which will do what you want.

Here's a few older posts to give you some ideas.

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2011/12/06/leveraging-geoprocessing-in-arcgis-workflow-manager-part-1/
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2011/12/13/leveraging-geoprocessing-in-arcgis-workflow-manager-part-2/
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2011/11/15/introducing-custom-steps-in-arcgis-workflow-manager/

and the current help
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/Workflow_Manager_Custom_Steps/00380000001w000000/

Cheers,
Fraser

Re: reconcile and post

FraserHand — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:02:09 GMT

and don't forget about the cleanup step -> this will let you frag mxds / versions and attachments for a given job.
ta,
Fraser

Re: reconcile and post

ChuanshengRen — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:12:52 GMT

Thanks!
Will take a look at the options.

Learner

Re: reconcile and post

FraserHand — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:23:16 GMT

No worries. If it will do what you want don't forget to mark this thread as answered.
Cheers,
F

Re: reconcile and post

RaghavendraSunku — Wed, 30 May 2012 04:45:07 GMT

There is also Workflow Manager's own "Post Job Version" GP tool that you can plug into your workflow. In addition to reconciling and posting, this tool also tracks the spatial edits made and triggers any spatial notifications registered.

-Raghu

Re: reconcile and post

TrevorHart1 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:25:51 GMT

There is also Workflow Manager's own "Post Job Version" GP tool that you can plug into your workflow. In addition to reconciling and posting, this tool also tracks the spatial edits made and triggers any spatial notifications registered.

-Raghu

We had all sorts of issue running the reconcile/post using the gptool custom step. In the end we had to call a Python script to make sure it works correctly.

Re: reconcile and post

RaghavendraSunku — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:02:28 GMT

Hi Trevor,

Can you please respond with any error messages that we reported when you tried to run our Post Job Version GPTool with the LaunchGP step? If possible, please turn up logging to 5 and retry.

Thanks,
Raghu