Multiple Statuses: Use a One-Step Action to Migrate Business Object Lifecycles

Use a One-Step™ Action to migrate multiple Business Objects to use the Business Object Lifecycle Editor. Using this method, you can migrate records with several different statuses at once.

To use a One-Step Action to migrate a legacy Business Object lifecycle for several statuses at a time:

1. Log in to CSM Administrator.
2. Create a new Blueprint.
3. In the Object Manager, select a Business Object in the Object tree (example: Incident), and then select the Edit Business Object task in the Structure area (or double-click a Business Object in the Object tree).
4. Select Bus Ob Properties.
5. Clear the Has lifecycle check box on the Lifecycle page. See Define Lifecycle Properties for a Business Object.
6. Create a new lifecycle for that Business Object. See Business Object Lifecycle Editor.
7. Edit your existing forms for the affected Business Objects to remove the old form controls and add the new form controls. See Add Lifecycle Controls to a Form.
8. Publish the Blueprint.
9. Log in to the CSM Desktop Client.
10. Open an existing record and note that the Transition Status Control currently allows access to any status in the drop-down list. Also note that the record is showing as not having a state on the Lifecycle Progress Indicator.
11. In the CSM Desktop Client, select One-Step > One-Step Manager.
12. Set the Business Object Association field to the Business Object that you want to migrate to the new lifecycle (example: Incident).
13. Select Create New.
14. Provide a name and description (example: Move many statuses).
15. Select OK.
16. Select the Conditions page and then select Specific group from the Allow One-step to run against drop-down list.
17. Select a Specific search group (example: All Incidents).
    This finds all the records using the legacy lifecycle.
18. Add the Advanced Action Decide between Multiple Cases to the designer board.
19. Add a Transition a Business Object Action to the designer board for each status you need to upgrade.

    

20. Select each case for the One-Step Action Decide Between Multiple Cases and select Edit Case.
21. In the Edit Case Action condition window, name each case (example: Records in New state, Records in In Progress state). Then define the expression (example: Incident.Status Equals New, Incident.Status equals In Progress).
22. For each corresponding Transition a Business Object One-Step Action, select it on the designer board and enter a name (example: Transition to New).
23. Select No Status Assigned from the From Status drop-down list.
24. Select your chosen target status from the Target Status drop-down list (example: New).

    

25. Select Ignore status mismatch. If this option is selected, when the From Status of a record doesn't match those specified in the One-Step Action, the record gets ignored and the One-Step Action continues. If you want the One-Step Action to stop if it finds a status mismatch, then clear the check box, at which point you get an error message and the One-Step Action stops immediately.
26. Save the One-Step Action and return to your Desktop Client dashboard.
27. Run your One-Step Action (example: Move many statuses).
28. Review some existing Incidents that were using the legacy lifecycle and they should now be migrated.
    The Lifecycle Progress Indicator now shows the records with their new statuses and all the records that were using the legacy lifecycle have been migrated to the new Business Object Lifecycle Editor. A journal entry is created for each Business Object transitioned as a result of the action.

    Note: If you migrate only one status first using the Single Status method, it doesn't matter if you then change your mind and use this approach afterwards. See Single Status: Use a One-Step Action to Migrate Business Object Lifecycles.