Integration Suite | Action Queues | Use Cases | Archive references / Workflows

Customer requirement

Images are referenced to articles. As soon as an article is archived, the referenced images are also to be archived.

Solution (summary)

  • Action Queue for the referenced images in PIM

  • Filling another Action Queue for changing the workflow status

Required modules

Procedure

  1. Create the first “Default” action queue to retrieve the references. Note the following settings:

    1. Record type: PIM Studio Products (Pdmarticle)

    2. Processor plug-in: Default

    3. Filter: Status filter “Archived”

    4. Posthandler: Enqueue references

      • Reference attribute: Reference attribute(s) to images

      • Queue type: Action

      • Destination Queue: Second Action Queue for changing the workflow status

  2. Create the processing scripts for the first queue - either a SingleWorker or a combination of a Starter and a Worker.

  3. Create the second “Execute workflowaction” action queue to retrieve the references. Note the following settings:

    1. Record type: DAM Studio Files (Mamfile)

    2. Processor plug-in: Execute workflowaction

    3. Filter: None

  4. Create the processing scripts for the second queue - either a SingleWorker or a combination of a Starter and a Worker.

  5. Run the processing scripts one after another, either using Run Next or Run Next With Pause.