Can a follow-up action swallow a precondition failure?

Hi,

I've written many preconditions and follow-up actions for work items in STG. I have a case where a follow-up action should fail silently if a precondition failed during it's follow-up save. Is this possible?

In the follow-up action, IWorkItemServer#saveWorkItem2() throws an exception because a precondition failed. I catch that exception and handle it accordingly, however the entire transaction is still rolled back! Is there a way that my follow-up action can remove the precondition failure from the collector so that the user's original changes can persist?

This is very urgent and may block a big deployment internally. Please help as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Kyle Christianson
STG Rational Solutions

Hi Jared, thanks for the reply.

The problem is there are multiple save actions with the follow-up actions. The first preconditions from the user's save changes all succeed, so we want these changes to persist. Then we are doing follow-up actions which save the work item again and run the preconditions again. If these preconditions fail, yes we want that follow-up save to fail, but we still need the original user's changes to persist because their preconditions succeeded.

Is there a way I can "advise" the save operation before actually performing the save to see if any preconditions are going to fail?

Thanks,
Kyle Christianson
STG Rational Solutions