WFT from Java or CLT

KristerS

I have searched the forums and documentation and cannot find anything about this. I have been tasked with triggering an existing WFT workflow from an external Java application. I see various places where I can start a workflow from Java or CLT with a Job Specification File, but nothing about triggering a workflow that already exists.

I'd prefer to use one workflow, whether the request is from the external application, or from a user inside TeamSite, so we don't have to maintain the workflow in more than one place. Also, we've got an existing (convoluted) Java program triggering a workflow with a Job Specification File and those triggered workflows don't appear to be tracked anywhere (for instance, they don't show up in the workflow tab on TeamSite).

We're running TeamSite 6.5SP2 on Windows 2003.

Thanks!

BlueWhale

Hello Krister,

We had a scenario where we need to trigger a WF from a perl script and we got this as follows:

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$WF_input_QA = "$iw_home\\local\\logs\\WF_input_QA.xml" ;

open(QAWFFILE, ">$WF_input_QA") or die "Cannot open $WF_input_QA";

$qa_wf_xml = "$workflow$userXXXXXX$waPathD:/Programs/Interwoven/TeamSitethrough HotKeysSTAGING$string_to_add";

print QAWFFILE "$qa_wf_xml";
close(QAWFFILE);

$cmd = "$iw_home\\iw-perl\\bin\\iwperl.exe $iw_home\\bin\\iwwft_compile.ipl -i < $WF_input_QA" ;
$result =`$cmd 2>&1`;


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I hope this helps.