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Disable Workflow Designer Activities?

Ryan Kelley

Is it possible to hide/disable certain Workflow activities on premise in Workflow Designer? There are activities like 'Write File', 'Create Directory' etc I'd rather not let our users use, for example, without having to educate everyone which ones they can use and which ones they cannot. Must be a json config file somewhere (I hope) where I can just comment certain ones out?

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  • Ken Lyon

    Hi Ryan Kelley,

    There's no way to configure that at this time. If you like, you could suggest this in the Ideas - VertiGIS Studio Workflow page to help gauge how much interest there might be for such a feature.

    Is your concern that members of your organization might write workflows that delete files that they shouldn't? In the case of Server Workflows, you could control this by limiting the permissions of the application pool identity in Windows.

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  • Ryan Kelley

    Thanks for the info Ken. The issue is more about writing temp files to the server and having to deal with the issues that come with that, or it becomes a dumping ground for testing, and I have to clean things up. Do you know by default where a user can or can't write to via a server-side workflow and decides to create a directory or make a file? Our software is not installed on C: but another letter, and I don't even think they'd be able to guess where to write to... if they can only write to where Workflow is installed, if that is the case.

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  • Nico Burgerhart

    Part of the cleanup can be done by configuring the Server Retention Policy.

    https://docs.vertigisstudio.com/workflow/latest/help/Default.htm#wf5/help/advanced-configuration.htm

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  • Nico Burgerhart

    See here for data directory and application pool identity write permissions.

    https://docs.vertigisstudio.com/workflow/latest/help/Default.htm#wf5/help/installation.htm#data

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  • Ryan Kelley

    Thanks for the links to docs Nico Burgerhart

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