Create Process Instance (Extended with Initiator)

API Type

Web Services

Description

Creates a process instance in which the user name for the user who initiates the process is specified.

Syntax

public virtual WFEvent CreateProcInstEx(string ProcessID, string ProcessInstID, string ProcInstName, string WorkObjID, string SuperProcInstID, string Initiator, string CustomID, NameValue[] Attributes, bool blnstartImmediately)

Parameters

Name	Description
ProcessID	Function: The process definition ID or process template name for a released process definition. Type string Accepted Values: A valid process definition ID or process template name.
ProcessInstID	Function: A process instance ID for the process instance you are creating. Type string Accepted Values: A unique, 32 character process instance ID. If you set this value to null, the AgilePoint Server generates the ID.
ProcInstName	Function: A unique process name that is associated with the process definition. Type string Accepted Values: A unique process instance name up to 1024 characters.
WorkObjID	Function: An ID for an object, such as a document, that is associated with the process instance. Type string Accepted Values: A valid, unique 256-character ID. Even though the field size is 256 characters, in common practice, this will usually return a 32-character GUID.
SuperProcInstID	Function: A process instance ID that acts as a parent process instance of the process instance that is intended to create. In other words, this is the ID of the process instance on which you want to base your new process instance. Type string Accepted Values: A valid, unique 32-character process instance ID.
Initiator	Function: Specifies the user who initiates a process. Type string Accepted Values: A valid user name.
CustomID	Function: A work object ID specified within a process instance. Type string Accepted Values: One valid work object ID.
Attributes	Function: Name-value pairs associated with a custom ID. Type NameValue Accepted Values: A valid custom ID with an associated name.
blnStartImmediately	Function: An obsolete, legacy parameter that must be true. Type bool Accepted Values: True

Output

WFEvent object that provides the status of the transaction. The possible statuses are:

Sent - Indicates event has been sent to engine for processing.
Failed - Indicates event failed to process.
Processed - Indicates event has been processed successfully.
Canceled - Indicates event was canceled.
Deferred - Indicates event does not need to be sent immediately.

Example

… see previous sample
string Initiator = ..// System.Environment.UserName
WFEvent evt = svc.CreateProcInstEx(
                  ProcessID,
                  ProcessInstID,
                  ProcInstName,
                  WorkObjID,
                  parentProcessInstID,
                  Initiator,
                  WorkObjID,
                  ds.ToArray(),
                  true);

Supported Versions

3.2.0.4 and higher

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