Workflow Auto Escalation
Configure escalation flows based on predefined criteria
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Configure escalation flows based on predefined criteria
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The objective of this functionality is to provide a mechanism to trigger action on applications which satisfy certain predefined criteria.
Looking at sample use cases provided by the product team, the majority of use cases can be summarised as performing action ‘X’ on applications in state ‘Y’ and have exceeded the state SLA by ‘Z’ days. We can write one query builder which takes this state ‘Y’ and SLA exceeded by ‘Z’ as search params and then we can perform action X on the search response. This has been achieved by defining an MDMS config like below:
In the above configuration, we define the condition for triggering the escalation of applications. The above configuration triggers escalation for applications in RESOLVED state which have exceeded stateSLA by more than 1.0 day and this triggers the escalation by performing CLOSERESOLVEDCOMPLAIN on the applications. Once the applications are escalated the processInstances are pushed on the pgr-auto-escalation topic. We have done a sample implementation for pgr-services, where we have updated the persister configuration to listen on this topic and update the complaint status accordingly.
The auto escalation for businessService PGR will be triggered when the following API is called:
Note: The businessService is a path param. (For example, if the escalation has to be done for tl-services NewTL workflow the URL will be 'http://egov-workflow-v2.egov:8080/egov-workflow-v2/egov-wf/auto/NewTL/_escalate').
These APIs have to be configured in the cron job config so that they can be triggered periodically as per requirements. Only the user with the role permission AUTO_ESCALATE can trigger auto escalations. Hence, create the user with statelevel AUTO_ESCALATE role permission and then add that user in the userInfo of the requestInfo. This step has to be done because the cron job does internal API calls and ZUUL will not enrich the userInfo.
For setting up an auto-escalation trigger, the workflow must be updated. For example, to add an auto escalate trigger on RESOLVED state with action CLOSERESOLVEDCOMPLAIN in PGR businessService, we will have to search the businessService and add the following action in the actions array of RESOLVED state and call update API.
Suppose an application gets auto-escalated from state ‘X' to state 'Y’, employees can look at these escalated applications through the escalate search API. The following sample cURL can be used to search auto-escalated applications of the PGR module belonging to Amritsar tenant -