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Start stalled workflows from beginning

When workflows stall, they get stuck on the stage that caused the issue. Many times over it is useful to start the workflow from the start – a complete re-run. But there is no way to do that in the … Continue reading

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Workflow Service Monitor

See my previous post about number of workflow instances sitting in the queue to be processed. You can via a single query determine how many instances are waiting and usually this number is very close to a zero – this … Continue reading

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Workflow service borked! Again!

Workflow service is extremely useful and extremely fragile. About once a month I get a call from a customer with the problem that boils down to Workflow Service not operating. Today I just had to see what is sitting in … Continue reading

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Restart HR.Net services

HR.Net is full of WTF moments. This whole blog is based on these moments: from ancient version of jQuery to obscure bugs in places where “things should just work”. This time I run into Workflow service that sometimes gets stuck: … Continue reading

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Find workflows/mailers with particular subject

Sometimes I get support requests quoting an email received from HR.Net and asking to modify that email text or add more recipients. And then I need need to find that workflow containing the mailer that sent out that particular message. … Continue reading

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Custom Script Validation on Screens… Again!

HR.Net is a mysterious beast! Something may work in one place, but same copy-pasted might not work in the other place. Last couple hours I have spent fighting Screen Validation again. I have already written about this feature a few … Continue reading

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Java Screen Field Validation

It has been a while since I had to do JavaScript in screens. And even longer since I done a validation on the screen. Since then there were changes in HR.Net which I have missed. And my old way to … Continue reading

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Find all users in a role

You know, HR.Net users have a primary role that defines their level of access to the data. Also there are many additional roles that allow to do other stuff, like using of navigator. But additional roles don’t give any data-permissions. … Continue reading

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Updating of tables ends up with a messy error message about incompatible type

After modifying one of tables in C.Net I ended up with an error message saying “Incompatible type blah-blah-blah” on table save (sorry, don’t have exact words or screenshot). Turned out that I have changed type of one of the fields … Continue reading

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Convert Report to be Landscape

Today I had to make a new report in HR.Net Document Explorer. Unfortunately version of HR.Net I’m using is buggy. Every time you try to view a report preview, it crashes: Vizual claims that this error is because I’m running … Continue reading

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