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Starting a workflow by webscript

sihnu — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:22:12 GMT

Greetings,I've been practicing with a web script that is supposed to take workflow definition name as a parameter and start a workflow of that definition. Here is my code:var definition,name;if (url.templateArgs['name'] === null) { status.code = 400; status.message = "A name must be provided.";

Re: Starting a workflow by webscript

mlagneaux — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:09:26 GMT

I think that's mandatory to pass a workflowPackage. In your case, this workflowPackage, which is a folder, won't have any children.

Re: Starting a workflow by webscript

sihnu — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:25:21 GMT

Thanks for the reply, I think I have confused workflowPackage with itemPackage… What is workflowPackage? When you start workflow using Share user interface you don't usually bind any folders to it. I'm kind a clueless what I should pass there.

Re: Starting a workflow by webscript

sihnu — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:37:06 GMT

Hey,

I did some googling about workflow package and I got now better understanding of it. So I updated my javascript with this:


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definition = workflow.getDefinitionByName(name);
var workflowPackage = workflow.createPackage();
definition.startWorkflow(workflowPackage, new Array());
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And it works now. Thanks for the help. It lead me to solve the problem