Configuring Lifecycle Mass Approval

The Lifecycle page for an object can be configured to display tasks and signature requirements for related objects. As installed, the Lifecycle page only shows the tasks and signature requirements for the selected object. To include related objects in the list, you need to add these properties to emxSystem.properties.

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Configuring Properties
  1. Create or open the text file to contain customized properties for emxSystem.properties. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.
  2. To specify the relationship, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object: 

      LifecycleMassApproval.<type>.RelatedObjects.Connections=<relationship>

      For example:

      LifecycleMassApproval.type_Book.RelatedObjects.Connections= relationship_HasDocuments

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • <type> is the symbolic name of the object for which you also want to include related objects
      • <relationship> is a comma-separated list of symbolic names of relationships

  3. To specify the direction, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object: 

      LifecycleMassApproval.<type>.RelatedObjects.ConnectionDirection= <direction>

      For example:

      LifecycleMassApproval.type_Book.RelatedObjects.ConnectionDirection=to

      These properties are used together, as in this example:

      LifecycleMassApproval.type_Book.RelatedObjects.Connections= relationship_HasDocuments

      LifecycleMassApproval.type_Book.RelatedObjects.ConnectionDirection=to

      The above example would allow a user to make sure that all documents to be included in a book have been approved prior to promoting the book to the Active state. The above properties would show all tasks/signature requirements for the documents that have been added to the book.

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • <type> is the symbolic name of the object for which you also want to include related objects

      • <direction> is one of these options:

        to

        from

        both

  4. When finished updating the text file with all properties you want to modify, including the ones shown here, use the text file to modify the emxSystem.properties page object. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.