Sending a SOAP call from one instance to another

[#1]

If I want to START workflow from a script outside Adobe Campaign I use the following SOAP call.

POST http://localhost/nl/jsp/soaprouter.jsp HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: xtk:workflow#Start
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:urn="urn:xtk:workflow">
  <soapenv:Header/>
  <soapenv:Body>
  <urn:Start>
  <urn:sessiontoken>mc</urn:sessiontoken>
  <urn:strWorkflowId>986963078</urn:strWorkflowId>
  </urn:Start>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope

Now, I want to use the same logic, but start the workflow from one neolane instance to another and here is where I am stuck.

var xmlMessage =
  <strWorkflowId>287865412</strWorkflowId>
var cnx = new HttpSoapConnection("http://myotherinstance/nl/jsp/soaprouter.jsp", "utf-8", 0);
var session = new SoapService(cnx, "xtk:workflow");
session.addMethod("Start", "xtk:workflow#Start", ["sessiontoken", "string", "", "NLElement"], []);
session.Start("mc", xmlMessage);

The error states (18/01/2018 17:38:28 js JavaScript: error while evaluating script '../js'.)

I have also tried tweaking the structure of the call to;

var xmlMessage =
<workflow>
<start>
  <strWorkflowId>287865412</strWorkflowId>
</start>
</workflow>

and even using the PostEvent methods isnt working.

I can successfully send real time events to the other instance message centre using javascript but this is the first time I've tried to start a workflow from one instance to the other.

Anyone got any ideas?

florentlb​Amit_Kumar​Vipul Raghav​Adhiyan​Jean-Serge Biron​Adobe Campaign​

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hey Vipul,

I think the mc's user rights are fine, otherwise I could have not triggered a workflow start call from my local SOAP client and worked. Also I have restriction by folder turned off.

After analyzing some soap calls I found out that I was not defining the element in the call, here is how i got it to work.

var xmlMessage = <strWorkflowId>287865412</strWorkflowId>
var cnx = new HttpSoapConnection("http://myotherhost/nl/jsp/soaprouter.jsp", "utf-8", 0);
var session = new SoapService(cnx, "xtk:workflow");
session.addMethod("Start", "xtk:workflow#Start",
                        ["sessiontoken", "string", "strWorkflowId", "string"],
                        []);
session.Start("mc", xmlMessage);

"strWorkflowId", "string"ng"

[#3]

Hi David,

mc user has limited rights and also if you check it's settings the rights are limited to a specific folder I.e Administration / Production / Message Center / Default.

However the workflow I'm pretty sure will be outside this folder. This is a potential problem I see with the current setup.

I'll additionally test to see why there is a JS error.

Regards

Vipul Raghav

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