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Call Content Package Objects

When any object calls another object in CA Process Automation, the product retrieves the referenced object from the database unless the object is deleted. For example, one process can call another process, or a process can refer to a specific dataset. If the referenced object has been deleted, the product displays an error. Otherwise, the product returns the object.

However, calling an object that is in a content package has another restriction. If any object references another object in a content package, the product verifies that it resides in the current release version of the content package. If the object is not in the current release version of the content package (or has been deleted) the product returns an error.

The product requires the most current version of an object in a content package in the following instances:

• You search for a custom operator from the Operator Browser.
• One calendar calls another calendar as a preview exclusion calendar (under the Preview Exclusion Calendar field, located on the Preview tab of the calendar designer). If the selected calendar is not part of the current release version of the content package, its dates are not excluded when that calendar is applied with the Preview Exclusion Calendar field.
• A custom operator calls another object through an object reference that is not part of the current release version of the content package.
• A dataset that the Start Process operator uses calls another object through an object reference. The object reference is not in the current release version of the content package.
• A process uses the Check Calendar operator to call a calender that is not part of the current release version of the content package.
• A process watch calls another object that is not part of the current release version of the content package. In this instance, the Process Watch palette does not display that process watch.
• A process calls an interaction request form that is not in the current release version of the content package. In this instance, that process fails.
• A process calls another process that is not in the current release version of the content package. In this instance, that process fails.
• A schedule calls another process that is not in the current release version of the content package. In this instance, that process does not run.
• A start request form calls another object through an object reference that is not in the current release version of the content package.
• An interaction request form (used in the Assign User Task operator and called in a Start Process operator) calls another object through an object reference that is not a part of the current release version of the content package.