Friday, 4 November 2011

Selecting the correct workflowid

A very quick one, which is mostly an aide-memoire for myself, but others may find useful.

I occasionally need to run CRM workflows programmatically using an ExecuteWorkflow request. This takes a workflowid as a parameter, but the question is, which one ? If you look at the workflow entity, you'll find several records for a workflow with a given name. The logic I use to determine which is the correct on is:


  • statecode = 1 (Activated)

  • activeworkflowid is not null

But use the workflowid value of the record for which activeworkflowid is not null. This seems a but counter-intuitive to me, hence this post

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2 comments:

  1. Naim7 December 2011 at 15:34

    You need to use the Type field to identify if the workflow instance is of type Definition.

    See the WorkflowType Class in the CRM SDK.

    Regards
    Naim

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  2. David Cabaniuk3 January 2012 at 13:07

    Could you not open the workflow up in the CRM interface and view its URL parameters for id. The Guid against that id is the workflow id.

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