Workflow GUID

Shikhar

All,

We have created a workflow that uses an step - send e-mail. Since we could
not just e-mail to a static e-mail address, we created a contact and assigned
the e-mail to this contact. In our workflow, we call this contact in the
e-mail send to.

All this works fine. The client has a development, QA, staging and
production environments. When we move the workflow from one environment to
another, the workflow stops working. The reason being the GUID for contact
having the e-mail changes from one environment to another.

Is there a way to manage this? Can we make sure for some specific record,
the GUID remains the same across different environments?

Thanks,

Shikhar

Dave Ireland

Shikhar;

I have one supported option: If you were to redeploy the client's
production database to both DEV and QA, then the contact will have the same
contactid in all 3 environments. as long as the contact is never deleted or
merged, the contactid should always be constant.

Dave Ireland


"Shikhar" <> wrote in message
news:...
> All,
>
> We have created a workflow that uses an step - send e-mail. Since we could
> not just e-mail to a static e-mail address, we created a contact and
> assigned
> the e-mail to this contact. In our workflow, we call this contact in the
> e-mail send to.
>
> All this works fine. The client has a development, QA, staging and
> production environments. When we move the workflow from one environment to
> another, the workflow stops working. The reason being the GUID for contact
> having the e-mail changes from one environment to another.
>
> Is there a way to manage this? Can we make sure for some specific record,
> the GUID remains the same across different environments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shikhar
>

Peter Hale

Write some code to crreate your "contact" with a common Guid in all
environments- yes - you can set the Guid of a new record in and entity
using the SDK

Pete


"Dave Ireland" <> wrote in message
news:.gbl...
> Shikhar;
>
> I have one supported option: If you were to redeploy the client's
> production database to both DEV and QA, then the contact will have the
> same contactid in all 3 environments. as long as the contact is never
> deleted or merged, the contactid should always be constant.
>
> Dave Ireland
>
>
> "Shikhar" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> All,
>>
>> We have created a workflow that uses an step - send e-mail. Since we
>> could
>> not just e-mail to a static e-mail address, we created a contact and
>> assigned
>> the e-mail to this contact. In our workflow, we call this contact in the
>> e-mail send to.
>>
>> All this works fine. The client has a development, QA, staging and
>> production environments. When we move the workflow from one environment
>> to
>> another, the workflow stops working. The reason being the GUID for
>> contact
>> having the e-mail changes from one environment to another.
>>
>> Is there a way to manage this? Can we make sure for some specific record,
>> the GUID remains the same across different environments?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Shikhar
>>
>
>