Flow Context UI Action from custom table

[Community Alums]

I have custom tables that also have Flows that attach themselves.

I'm trying to replicate the "Flow Context" UI action on a custom table so that I can see these active flows, however the default solution thats used for RITMs obviously does not work.

How can this be modified to work correctly?

function showFlowContext () {
	var url = new GlideURL('catalog_flow_context.do');
	url.addParam('sysparm_sys_id', g_form.getUniqueValue());
	url.addParam('sysparm_ck', g_form.getValue("sysparm_ck"));
	g_navigation.open(url.getURL(), "_blank");
}

Currently it obviously does not redirect me to the correct place, the custom table does not have a sysparm_ck value.

[Ashish Arovind1]

Try something like this :

var gr = new GlideRecord('sys_flow_context');
gr.addQuery('source_record', current.sys_id);
gr.query();
if (gr.next()) {
var url = 'sys_flow_context.do?sys_id=' + gr.sys_id.toString();
action.setRedirectURL(url);
} else {
gs.addErrorMessage("Record not found"));
action.setRedirectURL(current);

}

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Ashish Raj

[SM_Toronto]

Hi,

Nothing happened when I clicked it.

 

[Community Alums · Accepted solution]

I managed to resolve this myself with an Ajax call.

function showFlowContext() {
    var id = g_form.getUniqueValue();
    var ga = new GlideAjax('AjaxUtils');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'getFlowContext');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_id', id);
    ga.getXMLAnswer(getValue);

    function getValue(response) {
        var answer = JSON.parse(response);
        if (answer["success"] == "true") {
	    g_navigation.open('/$flow-designer.do#/operations/context/' + answer.id, "_blank");
        }
    }

}

var AjaxUtils = Class.create();
AjaxUtils.prototype = Object.extendsObject(global.AbstractAjaxProcessor, {
	getFlowContext: function(){
		var id = this.getParameter('sysparm_id');
		var ctx = new GlideRecord("sys_flow_context");
		ctx.addEncodedQuery("source_table=table_name_here^source_record="+id);
		ctx.query();
		if(ctx.next()){
			var results = {
				"success":"true",
				"id":ctx.getUniqueValue()
			};
			return JSON.stringify(results);
		}
		gs.addErrorMessage("Flow Context does not exist for this record.");
		var results = {
			"success":"false"
		};
		return JSON.stringify(results);
	},
	
    type: 'AjaxUtils'
});

[Chase Stevenson]

Aidan, can you let me know where you're putting this second Ajax script? Is it in your UI action or did you make a script include, or client script etc.? I need to do the same thing as you and I'm stuck with the second script you included:

var AjaxUtils = Class.create();
AjaxUtils.prototype = Object.extendsObject(global.AbstractAjaxProcessor, {
	getFlowContext: function(){
		var id = this.getParameter('sysparm_id');
		var ctx = new GlideRecord("sys_flow_context");
		ctx.addEncodedQuery("source_table=table_name_here^source_record="+id);
		ctx.query();
		if(ctx.next()){
			var results = {
				"success":"true",
				"id":ctx.getUniqueValue()
			};
			return JSON.stringify(results);
		}
		gs.addErrorMessage("Flow Context does not exist for this record.");
		var results = {
			"success":"false"
		};
		return JSON.stringify(results);
	},
	
    type: 'AjaxUtils'
});