Extending Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management Cookbook - Second Edition

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This seems to greatly simplify workflow development. We don't need all of the event handler methods since most of them only update the record's status. There is some thought required if we consider the following scenario.

The workflow is canceled by the user, which means that the status will go back to Waiting. We chose Waiting when the workflow task was canceled because the state machine will throw an error if we try to set it to the initial state. The problem is that we can't change the status to the same status; we will still get an error. The error is not just a message to the user; it will place the workflow in a failed state, which will require an administrator to cancel, resubmit, or resume it.

The problem is that we ...