We have Hyperion Workspace Taskflow which are used for variety of execution of tasks . But without manually logging into Workspace , we cannot call a taskflow outside Hyperion Workspace .
In this blog , we will see an indirect method to call a taskflow outside Hyperion Workspace .
I will be using LCM to initiate a taskflow outside Hyperion Workspace . LCM method will enable the taskflow to run after certain amount of minutes
To Begin
1. Export Taskflow definition via LCM (by logging into Hyperion Shared service )
2. Log into the server which host the Foundation service , traverse to the path Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem_server_name\import_export . Then to the folder where you opted to export the artifacts .
You will see a file name $Taskflowname_sched ($Taskflowname).xml which will contain the schedule of the taskflow
You will notice a section . We will tweaking this file to initiate the taskflow to start at the specific time
3. The above time is a JAVA date time format , so we will a JAVA program to systematically generate this time . Write the output into file
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.Object.*;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
public class lcmdate {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
long ONE_MINUTE_IN_MILLIS=60000;//millisecs
long NO_of_Mins = 10 ; // number of minutes after which the taskflow should be initiated
System.out.print( new Date(new Date().getTime() + (NO_of_Mins * ONE_MINUTE_IN_MILLIS)).getTime());
}
}
4. Then using DOS script we create a Schedule XML file and then import using the LCM batch utility
NOTE : I have not given much details on the scripts used . If you require more information please request so .
