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How bad workflow mappings hurt workflow text exports and hamper the TRIRIGA application upgrade process.
While doing an application upgrade from 10.6.0 to 10.8.0 I text exported all workflows in both systems and then did a comparison. Upon first look it appears that there are several workflows in the classification module which have changed. I opened the first one to see what has c…
By Mark Johnson · Sep 01, 2026 · 5 min read
Status Change Notifications - How to Enhance Them Without Breaking Base Functionality
Out Of The Box Status Change Notifications Just about every module in TRIRIGA has a module level workflow that handles status change notifications. The workflow is named in the following format: Module - Associate - triStatus - Create Notification Details . In order for a notifi…
By Mark Johnson · Sep 01, 2026 · 6 min read
Downside Of Renaming TRIRIGA Objects
I am a big proponent of using a Naming Convention while doing development in a TRIRIGA environment. In fact I have created the TRIRIGA Dash Notation naming convention, which I consider to be a superior naming convention. However, there is a downside to following a naming convent…
By Mark Johnson · Sep 01, 2026 · 3 min read
The Hidden Danger of Copying TRIRIGA Workflows
There are many times in TRIRIGA development when it makes sense to copy an existing workflow. It can be a great time saver when you need to perform the same functionality to a different Business Object (BO). This happens to be the exact scenario that a colleague of mine ran in t…
By Mark Johnson · Sep 01, 2026 · 6 min read
TRIRIGA: Using an undocumented admin console feature to aid troubleshooting
When I first started working in TRIRIGA, the desire to have a true in memory only object was one of the things that Application Developers requested from the platform development team. Having to create a record, state transition it, and then state transition it again to delete i…
By Mark Johnson · Sep 01, 2026 · 3 min read
TRIRIGA Workflow Variable Tasks and Their Naming Convention
Over the years of working with TRIRIGA one thing I've always done is to try and constantly improve my craft. I'm always interested in how I can automate something or do something better, faster, more efficient, etc. As part of that process I have further refined and developed th…
By Mark Johnson · Aug 31, 2026 · 4 min read