About events that occur for both documents and work areas

The following events can apply to both the work area and the document object. On the General page of the interface extension designer, you will see these events listed in the Work Area State events and the Versioning events list.

BeforeAssignToWP event

AfterAssignToWP event

BeforeReleaseDocument event

AfterReleaseDocument event

BeforeCancelDocument event

AfterCancelDocument event

If the interface extension is assigned to a document type, the events will occur for documents of that type. If the interface extension is assigned to a work area template, the events will occur if any document is assigned, released, or canceled from a work area based on that template. The event will occur twice if both the document and the work area use the interface extension.

The events occur in the following order:

1. Before<Action> events of the work area
2. Before<Action> events of the document
3. After<Action> events of the document
4. After<Action> events of the work area

The document and work area object will be passed as an argument to the events.

Note    These events are always run from a transaction opened in the work area, even if the user invoked the operation from the Main area.

A special transaction mode can be used to set the property values for the document and work area objects. Even if the document has just been released to the Main area (AfterReleaseDocument), you can still change its property values. New property values will be applied to the active revision of the document (Main area for released documents; work area for documents assigned to the work area).

Related information

Understanding work areas