Merge Process Instances

API Type

Web Services

Description

Merges 2 or more process instances into one process instance.

Good to Know

• These process instances must be based on the same process model.
• If more than one process instance is intended to perform the same operation, instead of having more than one process instance, you can merge all the process instances into a single process instance.
• To call this method, the API account user must have the access right, Cancel a Process.
• This method is provided for reference for very advanced users — mainly internal AgilePoint teams. If you need help with this method, contact AgilePoint Professional Services.

Syntax

public virtual string MergeProcInsts(WFProcessMergingInstruction instruction)

Parameters

Output

The process instance ID of the merged process instance.

Example

string MergeProcessInstances(IWFWorkflowService svc, string[]
processInstanceIDs)
	{
    IWFWorkflowService svc = GetWorkflowService();

    // suspends all of process instances to be merged.
    foreach (string id in processInstanceIDs)
        {
        svc.SuspendProcInst(id);
        }

    // query process instances
    string inExpr = ShUtil.Merge(processInstanceIDs, true);
    WFQueryExpr queryExpr = new WFQueryExpr("PROC_INST_ID", SQLExpr.IN,
    WFAny.Create(inExpr), true);
    WFBaseProcessInstance[] pis = svc.QueryProcInsts(queryExpr);

    // merge custom attributes
    NameValue[] mergedCustomAttributes = GetMergeCustomAttributes(api, pis);
    string procInstID = UUID.GetID();
    string procInstName = pis[0].DefName + "_" + DateTime.Now.Tostring()
    + " - Merged";
    string workObjectID = procInstID + " - Merged";
           
    WFProcessMergingInstruction instruction = new
    WFProcessMergingInstruction();
    instruction.MergingProcessInstanceIDs = processInstanceIDs;
    instruction.MergedProcessInstance = new
    WFProcessMergingInstruction.MergedProcessParameter(
                  procInstID,
                  procInstName,
                  workObjectID,
                  null,
                  mergedCustomAttributes);
    instruction.Validate();
    return svc.MergeProcInsts(instruction);
	}

// sample code for merging custom attributes
private NameValue[] GetMergeCustomAttributes(IWFWorkflowService svc,
WFBaseProcessInstance[] pis)
	{
    List<string> workObjectIDs = new List<string>();
    foreach (WFBaseProcessInstance pi in pis)
        {
        workObjectIDs.Add(pi.WorkObjectID);
        }
    KeyValue[] items = svc.GetCustomAttrsEx(workObjectIDs.ToArray());
    Dictionary<string, System.Xml.XmlDocument> dss =
    new Dictionary<string, System.Xml.XmlDocument>();
    foreach (KeyValue item in items)
        {
        WFCustomAttributes ds = new WFCustomAttributes();
        ds.AttrXml = item.Value;
        System.Xml.XmlDocument xmlDoc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
        xmlDoc.LoadXml(ds["//"] as string);
        dss[item.Key] = xmlDoc;
        }
    // master processInstanceID and workObjectID
    string masterProcessInstanceID = pis[0].ProcInstID;
    string masterWorkObjectID = pis[0].WorkObjectID;
    System.Xml.XmlDocument masterXmlDoc = dss[masterWorkObjectID];
    System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager nsm =
    ShUtil.GetNamespaces(masterXmlDoc);
    System.Xml.XmlNode titleNode =
    masterXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/pd:issueTracking/pd:issueTitle", nsm);
    titleNode.InnerText = "Title - Merged";
    System.Xml.XmlNode descriptionNode =
      
    masterXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/pd:issueTracking/pd:description", nsm);
    descriptionNode.InnerText = "Description - Merged";
    System.Xml.XmlNode parent =
    masterXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/pd:issueTracking/pd:Persons", nsm);
  
    // merge rest of children
    foreach (string key in dss.Keys)
        {
        if (key == masterWorkObjectID) continue;
        System.Xml.XmlDocument secondaryXmlDoc = dss[key];
        System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager nsmgr =
        ShUtil.GetNamespaces(secondaryXmlDoc);
        System.Xml.XmlNode node =
        secondaryXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("/pd:issueTracking/pd:Persons", nsmgr);
        parent.InnerXml += node.InnerXml;
        }
    return NameValue.Array("//", masterXmlDoc.OuterXml);
	}

#endregion

Supported Versions

4.5 and higher

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