How to trigger a workflow from a business rule?

[poornima2]

How to trigger a workflow from a business rule?
Thanks

[tyler_jones]

If you look at the Business Rule titled Start Workflow (sc_req_item), it gives some hints.

startWorkflow(current.cat_item.workflow.toString());

function startWorkflow(id) {
   var w = new Workflow();
   var context = w.startFlow(id, current, current.operation(), getVars());
   if (context != null)
   current.context = context.sys_id;
}

/**
 * Get the variables from the request item so that we can map these to the workflow.input
 * variables if the names match.
 */
function getVars() {
   var vars = {};
   for (var n in current.variables)
      vars[n] = current.variables[n];
  
   return vars;
}

It looks like all it wants is this:

   var w = new Workflow();
   var context = w.startFlow(id, current, current.operation(), variable_map);

[Haviesh1]

didn' t worked 

[Hari63]

Hello @tyler_jones ,

As you suggested, i have used the below line,

Could you please tell me, how to use the "variable_map" in workflow.
var context = w.startFlow(id, current, current.operation(), variable_map);

For example:

var vars = { "number" : "5" }
var context = w.startFlow(id, current, current.operation(), vars); // passing vars obj to Workflow.


How to access the "number" property in Workflow, please suggest the syntax.

Thanks in Advance,
Hariharan N

[Haviesh1]

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {

var wflw = new Workflow();

wflw.startFlow(wflw.getWorkflowFromName('wf_name'), current, 'update');

})(current, previous);