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Simple Workflow (execute script) Making HTTP Call

peterstb — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:24:05 GMT

Hi All,I would like to have a workflow action, where upon content landing or being created in a space, a simple workflow is executed, where the action is "execute a script", and in that javascript file and HTTPRequest is invoked. Essentially, I would like to simply invoke a URL when content lands i

Re: Simple Workflow (execute script) Making HTTP Call

zaizi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:54:57 GMT

You can create a Custom Action that can be configured to be executed using content rules. The wiki http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Custom_Actions and Alfresco SDK have examples on how do write a custom action.

In Java you'll be able to call external URL using a library like HTTPClient: http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/