Workflow Shortcuts & Initiation Item

Ricardo_Cartaxo

 

Hi,

I want to start a Workflow programmatically using the Workflow Web Service. During the development phase I encountered two problems:

1-      When I add an attachment to a workflow the web services creates a copy of the document, but the request is to create a shortcut to the document.

The only solution that I found is to create a shortcut to the document, add the shortcut as a workflow attachment and then delete the shortcut.

Is there an easy way to achieve this?

2-      I have some actions in the workflow that are applied to the “Initiation Item”, but I cannot find a way to set a workflow attachment as the initiation item using web services. Is this possible?

Best regards

Kyle_Swidrovich

Hello Ricardo,

 

My responses:

1)      1) When staging the attachments of a workflow through the GUI, you have the added advantage of working with a temporary attachments folder.

That is, the folder already exists somewhere and has an ID that becomes the parent of any attachment you add.

However, in web services, the folder doesn’t exist yet.  For that reason, you need to essentially stage an attachments folder programmatically first, then use the IDs of each item in your dummy attachments folder in the “attachments” array to CreateProcess.

2)     2)   I’m not clear on what you’re referring to here.

Normally, one would initiate a workflow using the “Initiation Item” from the function menu of a document in the GUI (or possibly others if you have additional optional modules).

That document becomes the “Initiation Item”.

I’m not sure why you would want to make a workflow attachment the “Initiation Item” in your case.  Would you ever initiate a new workflow from the attachment of an existing workflow?

 

Cheers,

Kyle