Enable disable workflow launcher based on feature flag

[#1]

Hi All, 

How can we enable or disable any workflow launcher based on feature flag value. 

Any suggestion please. 

Thanks, 

Nj

[nitinjl · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes, you can enable/disable launcher based on the feature flag.
More info about feature flag at https://aemlab.blogspot.com/2018/06/sling-feature-flag.html

[nitinjl · Accepted solution]

Thanks Arun, for your time and replying on the thread. I already gone through your blog post and found very useful. But somehow not satisfying my requirement.

[nitinjl]

What do you mean with "Feature flag"? Is it the sling feature with the same name [1] or do you refer to the software development pattern (which is not tied to any implementation)?

In any way, each workflow launcher has a flag "enabled", which you can set (based on any type of code or automation).

[1] https://sling.apache.org/documentation/the-sling-engine/featureflags.html

[nitinjl]

Thanks Jorg for your reply.we have a requirement to invoke workflow based on asset metadata update. For that reason written a launcher which is working fine for individual asset update.

We do not want to invoke that launcher in case of bulk metadata update hence exploring feature enabled / disabled flag option available in launcher configuration.

[Jörg_Hoh]

Ok, I understand. The problem with enabling/disabling the workflow launcher is that this is a global setting. That means, that when you disable it for your bulk process, all "regular" uploads happening in parallel are affected as well.

[Jörg_Hoh]

But there is an undocumented feature available, which allows that changes performed during a session do not trigger workflows. I found it described at https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/Adobe-Experience-Manager/Use-of-quot-event-user-dat...

[Jörg_Hoh]

and also here: https://cqdump.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/prevent-workflow-launchers-from-starting-a-workflow/

[nitinjl]

Thanks Jorg your response, https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/Adobe-Experience-Manager/Use-of-quot-event-user-dat... worked for me.