topic ScriptableObject properties in startWorkflow in Alfresco Archive

ScriptableObject properties in startWorkflow

snig — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:58:00 GMT

Hi AllNeed to start a workflow using the Workflow JavaScript API provided in 3.2 - http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Workflow_JavaScript_API.In the JscriptWorkflowDefinition object, we can start a workflow using the startWorkflow method. However, there we need to send a ScriptableObject argument as the

Re: ScriptableObject properties in startWorkflow

snig — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:28:57 GMT

However, I cannot use the typical actions.create method of starting a workflow, since this does not return any value.
I need to get the instanceId of the newly started workflow.

Re: ScriptableObject properties in startWorkflow

snig — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:58:22 GMT

Resolved.

Sample Code:


var workflowParameters = new Array();
var futureDate = new Date();
futureDate.setDate(futureDate.getDate());

workflowParameters["bpm:workflowDescription"] = wdescription;
workflowParameters["bpm:workflowDueDate"] = futureDate;
workflowParameters["bpm:workflowPriority"] = 1;

var wpath = wdef.startWorkflow(userhome, workflowParameters);
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