Access a Flow Action "Variables" from an EXTERNAL scriptI

[poyntzj]

I am rebuilding an old Workflow Activity.  The WF activity used to run and read the Workflow Scratchpad to store data and use that in processing via an external Script.

I have reworked this via 2 methods for Flow Designer, but at the moment both are using a custom table which I'd prefer to eliminate.

I can see from the Flow Action that the running version resides in sys_flow_context, and the data in the variables can be read from sys_flow_value (does need an ACL change to let me check - but easy to address)

What I need to do is, from within my Flow Action is to call a Script Include and pass the sys_id of this now running flow_engine_context record.

eg:

new ScriptIncludeName().doSomething(fd_data.sys_id)

new ScriptIncludeName().doSomething(current.sys_id)

In a Script Step in a Flow Action, I am constantly getting fd_data is undefined, current is always null, this.sys_id = null

Anyone got any ideas on how to do this

[Lithesh]

Hi @poyntzj ,

Follow the images that I have attached,

Let me know if you any doubts and if you find this is useful don't forget to accept solutions.

Thanks,

Lithesh

[poyntzj]

That is fine within the confine of the Flow or Script action,. but not if I want to do something with the flow from an external process such as a Script Include - which I do

[poyntzj · Accepted solution]

So, to get the ID of the current context (probably bad phrasing on my behalf)

var contextId = FlowScriptAPI.getContextID();
return contextId;

This allows me to get the ID of the running script action from a Script Include to do what I require