How to get the Flow sys_id (sys_flow_context.sys_id) from the trigger record sys_id?

[Erik Gunther2]

In a background script editor, I successfully ran the following methods to cancel a Flow Designer workflow:

var gpa = new sn_ph.GlideProcessAutomation('91dd1c84dbc73b849aab755a8c961993');
gpa.cancel('manually cancelled');

My issue is that this method requires the sys_id of the sys_flow_context record. If I'm on the record that triggers the flow, how do I get from the trigger record to the sys_flow_context sys_id?

When I look at how sc_req_item is implemented (trying to ascertain how this was done elsewhere), it has a Flow Context field. Do I need to do the same thing - add this field? If so, then from Flow Designer, how do I retrieve the sys_flow_context sys_id of the executing workflow in order to update the trigger table Flow Context field? Also, the link between sys_flow_context and trigger record must be available somewhere for this to work in the first place so I would think creating the Flow Context field should be unnecessary.

Note: I also did a search for GlideProcessAutomation in docs.servicenow and didn't find anything.

In addition, when I check the sys_flow_context table, there are 2 fields: Source Table and Source Record, which appear to be the right fields, but unfortunately, they are empty for my existing workflows.

[Michael Culhane]

I couldn't find the trigger record to context record lookup in sys_flow_plan_context_binding  but in sys_flow_context there is a Source Record field with the trigger info.  I'm on Quebec.

[Andrew Steeley]

Very helpful.  Thanks for returning to document this in the ticket.  Why is this stuff so hard to find?  This platform sucks.

[LearnerNow]

@Erik Gunther 

I found this thread as I was searching for similar issue. I need to get the context ID of the flow triggered by an RITM.

I am not sure that the Hash Code of the table sys_flow_plan_context_binding contains this information, as it's not a reference field, and it's not clear how to get the id from this field.

Do you have further details about this table, or a link to a documentation of the table.

[Erik Gunther2]

[Aishwarya Prabu]

Hi, I am looking out for the same. Any solution to get the context id of the flow triggered by an RITM ?