Workflow Soluiton

Hi All,

ITMS 7.5 now includes a number of new ASDK capabilities for the Software Management Framework.  I can't seem to find any built in Workflow 7.5 components that would have the same function.

Do they exist?  Can anyone tell me where to find them?

I'm specifically interested in creating software packages, releases, products, components and managed software delivery policies.

The new ASDK comps are not built-in I don't think. You have to rerun the generator (just done by double clicking the project in WF Manager). The ASDK gen should now run against a number of software related services now.

Ah yes of course - re-compile the generator components!.  I will try that and report back.

For anyone trying this is wasn't as simple as opening the Symantec.Components.Generated7.Altiris.ASDK project and hitting "Recompile and Close.

Doing so gave error messages about arguments.

Instead I

1. Selected "Adjust definitions"
2. Ticked all of the web services available (there were duplicates of all of them) and clicked Next
3. On the Validation Errors page I had to change all of the Property names to something other than Description and Name (Description1 and Name1 )
4. Click OK
5. Click Recompile and close

I have not tried using any of the new components yet but they were certainly available in a new workflow I started.  I don't know why there were duplicate web services.  You could probably just select one of each and cut down on the number of components generated.

reecardo - any chance the default components can be updated?

There was an actual task a while ago where we basically went the route of no longer delivering the generated libraries if we detected them there on upgrade.

The reasoning was this: if the customer had already regenerated against their SMP and got new components, and then upgraded WF, we basically delivered the core generated components and broke all of the customer's flows with the new components.

So we just stopped delivering the generated libs if we detected them there.

This was a clean install of ITMS and a clean install of Workflow.  There wouldn't be an existing library to detect so shouldn't I have got the up to date libraries compiled on install?

Its not a big deal for me really but I do like Workflow and I think it has huge potential if Symantec could put some more effort into marketing it.  Things like not having a fully set of ITMS related components could be quite an obstacle to someone just getting started with workflow.

Is there anyway to change the SMP server option to a remote SMP instead of the local one when adjusting the definitions in the Symantec.Components.Generated7.Altiris.ASDKTask Project?

When you open the Task generator, it should populate with a list of all SMPs registerd on that machine (on the Credentials tab of Symantec Explorer). If you have multiple SMPs registered, juust select the one you need in the dropdown and continue.

That worked! Thank you so much!

Hello folks, help needed !!

Since we migrated to 7.5 we are getting a cast ERROR with generated components like "GetResourceTargetsComponent" or "AssignResourceTargetsToPolicy"

Server was unable to process request. ---> Unable to cast object of type 'Altiris.PatchManagementCore.Policies.SoftwareUpdateAdvertismentSetPolicy' to type 'Altiris.NS.StandardItems.Policies.ClientConfigPolicy'.