[Vtigercrm-developers] Workflow on entity delete?

[Max Clarke]

That last one should be:

$em->triggerEvent("vtiger.entity.afterunlink", $entityData);

Max


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Max Clarke <max at smarte.com.au> wrote:

> For those interested, to fire an event when an entity is unlinked from its
> parent, add the following to include/utils/utils.php at line 1394:
>
> require_once("include/events/include.inc");
> $adb = PearDatabase::getInstance();
> $em = new VTEventsManager($adb);
> $em->initTriggerCache();
> $entityData = VTEntityData::fromEntityId($adb, $record);
> $em->triggerEvent("vtiger.entity.beforeunlink", $entityData);
>
> and then for an event fired after unlink, after this line just under what
> you inserted at 1394:
>
> $focus->trackUnLinkedInfo($return_module, $return_id, $module, $record);
>
> add the following:
>
> $em->triggerEvent("vtiger.entity.beforeunlink", $entityData);
>
> Cheers
>
> Max
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Max Clarke <max at smarte.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Just a little more on this, after the event not firing and me tracing
>> around the vtiger source...
>>
>> I realised that when you delete an entity from a related list it merely
>> unlinks it, not deletes it.
>>
>> This might be intended behaviour, but from an end user standpoint,
>> doesn't make much sense. Usually when you click a trash can icon and it
>> pops up and prompts you "Are you sure you want to delete?", you think the
>> entity will be deleted, not unlinked. Perhaps you need 2 buttons instead of
>> 1 - one to delete which will be actually delete the object, and one to
>> remove it from it's parent (unlink).
>>
>> Anyway, unfortunately there's no event that fires on this unlink method,
>> so if anyone has any ideas besides modifying the core source to fire an
>> event, I'm all ears!
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Max Clarke <max at smarte.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately those aren't in the vtlib manual or on the Eventing Vtiger
>>> page: https://wiki.vtiger.com/index.php/Eventing
>>>
>>> Thanks for the tip though, that'll do the trick!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Joe Bordes <joe at tsolucio.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Not a workflow but you have two events to create eventhandlers:
>>>>
>>>> beforedelete
>>>> afterdelete
>>>>
>>>> you can read on how to create eventhandlers in the vtlib manual
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>> TSolucio
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> El 24/03/14 04:22, Max Clarke escribió:
>>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>>  Hopefully an easy one. Is there a way to execute a workflow when an
>>>> entity is deleted?
>>>>
>>>>  The reason I ask is so I can update a field in Tickets when a custom
>>>> submodule entity is deleted.
>>>>
>>>>  Cheers
>>>>
>>>>  Max
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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