Feasibility of a Scenario with content server and appworks

DominicLaf

I have a scenario wich looks like this

Everytime an employe inserts a new Document in a businness workspace of a certain categorie I would like a business process to start in appworks.

Is there a way for content server to emit a (event message call) to Appworks so that the process could reclassify and automate actinos to be done by this docuemnt)

Or Do i have to have a process on a time scheduled to poke content for new entrys?

Has anyone done this or thought of it

Thank You

Greg Griffiths

@DominicLaf both are possible depending on what how customised you want the system to be.

For your first case, I would personally use an OScript level callback event to do what you need, but it may also be possible with a WebReport trigger.

Your second case could be done via a scheduled WebReport or a custom OScript Agent for example or even something outside OTCS like a PowerShell script scheduled via AT calling the REST/WebService APIs.

DominicLaf

@Greg_Griffiths

So to keep it mostly out of the box use would be webreports or OScript

I am familliar with Web Reports but OScript either i have never seens it named as such or not aware of it could you refer me to articles in the support documentation?

Greg Griffiths

OScript is what the code is written in using the SDK Tools like CS IDE / Builder. A good primer on common development options can be found at

https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/Overview/56860905.

Kashellkar_Vishal

@DominicLaf did you manage to get it working? We too have a requirement where we'd like to initiate a process in Appworks on a particular action. And there are couple of ways I think it can be achieved

1. REST : Web Reports have a tag for calling REST client. So if your Appworks instance have REST Connector installed, i think it is possible. Unfortunately our customer doesnt want REST Connector to be installed on AppWorks as it is a "community" connector.
2. RUNSHELL: Runshell tag in webreport allows you to execute batch or python. from batch file I am calling Powershell script which calls Appoworks SOAP API. Unfortunately my initial tests are unsuccessful. I am able to call SOAP API from Powershell when I run the batch file manually. But when I call it from WebReports, it doesnt work for some reason.

So wondering how did you manage to achieve your requirement?

bharath_partha1

@Greg Griffiths runshell and passing parameters doesnt work as explained in the guide, we are able to run the shell and get the value for $1 in the server but when we pass the parameter [LL_REPTAG_"examples/hello_world.bat Test" RUNSHELL /] is not printing the Test in the output