Content Server REST API - Updating Workflow Attribute value

AJ Gorczyca · 2021-06-09T19:31:29+00:00

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I'm looking through the Content Server REST API documentation and not seeing a direct way to update the attributes of a workflow through REST API. Am I missing this somewhere or is it not possible?

I believe I asked a similar question in the past and was told (multiple years ago) that it was not yet available in REST but coming in the next couple of releases. Maybe I'm simply missing it from the documentation but couldn't tell how to accomplish this.

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Greg Griffiths

see https://forums.opentext.com/forums/developer/discussion/comment/934437#Comment_934437 and https://forums.opentext.com/forums/developer/discussion/comment/943956#Comment_943956 for some examples. The documentation and examples is still lacking in this area.

AJ Gorczyca

Wow, how sad that you are referring me back to me asking this same question previously. I swear I looked through my own previous posts b/c I thought I had asked this before but didn't see it.

Thanks for referring me to...myself.

Greg Griffiths

@ajgorczyca does happen, there are lots of post and people comment sometimes months or years later too, happened to me as well :) Hope you found what you needed.

Ed Davis

Related...

Does anyone know how to get a listing of the WF attributes from the WF Template?

This information is required to update the attributes with the DraftProcesses API Endpoint via WorkflowForm_#.

With Forms I use FORMINFO:ATTRIBUTES

And Categories I use CATINFO:DEFINITION

Is there anything similar to this for Workflow Attributes.

I currently just do a "F12" Chrome Dev Debug Source Look at the Map --> Attribute Definition Web Page in the Workflow definition which you can pick them out:

e.g.: <INPUT CLASS="valueEditable" TYPE="text" NAME="_1_1_8_1" TITLE="Booking_Number" ID="_1_1_8_1" VALUE="" SIZE="100" MAXLENGTH="100" ONCHANGE="markDirty();">

"8" being the magic number

But it would be nice to have it in JSON for automating Form Building.

Ian_Whitfield

I don't think you can get the info from the Workflow Map using a tag but you can get it from a particular step of a Workflow instance that has attributes set. For this you need something like:

[LL_REPTAG_{12345,12345,1} WFTASKINFO:ATTRIBUTESINFO ASSOC:Data ASSOC:AttrDefinition /]

To visualize the data you can use the INSPECT sub-tag on the output.

Regards

Ian