topic Re: Email notifications from subflows in Administration and Deployment

Email notifications from subflows

jklaverstijn — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:53:18 GMT

Hi all,

This is SAS 9.4M8 on RHEL8, LSF Processmanager is 10.2.

Never thought that LSF could throw me this curve ball after so many years. One of our users came up with this and I managed to replicate easily.

The usecase is, I have a flow, let's call it SF, with an email notification set for ends with any return code. This works well if I submit that flow independently. However, if I add SF as a subflow to another flow, say MF, and I submit MF, I do not see the email notification defined for SF.

Looking for an explanation. Am I missing the obvious (as in: why didn't I notice this 12 years ago?)?

Kind regards and in bewilderment, Jan.

Re: Email notifications from subflows

SASKiwi — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:30:01 GMT

I'd be interested in knowing the answer to this also since we are considering chaining LSF flows together for greater flexibility.

Re: Email notifications from subflows

Quentin — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:13:32 GMT

I haven't used subflows, but seems plausible that there is no notifications for subflows, only flows.

I assume if you kick off the flow which has a subflow, the flow will email appropriately when it ends?

But what you want is an email from each time a subflow ends?

Re: Email notifications from subflows

jklaverstijn — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:14:29 GMT

Flow MF will email when it ends but the subflow SF flow embedded in it will not. The assumption was that it would. And yes it was what we were expecting. This may however prove to be wishful thinking. If this behaviour is by design I would have hoped to find some hint in the docs. Haven't found it sofar.

Re: Email notifications from subflows

jklaverstijn — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:14:54 GMT

I opened a track with SAS Support. I will update you on its conclusion.