How to call workflow from Touch UI

[niveshchandraj]

Hi,

can anyone please help me on how to call workflow in Touch UI.

[Hemant_arora]

Go to http://localhost:4505/libs/cq/workflow/admin/console/content/models.html

select the model and start workflow.

[niveshchandraj]

Thank you for the suggestion but am trying to access it by using jQuery

[Hemant_arora · Accepted solution]

Make an jquery ajax call to a sling servlet which further call the workflow through API

Refer to example below.

Adobe Experience Manager Help | Invoking Adobe Experience Manager Workflows using the AEM Java API

You must also look into solution by smacdonald2008​

There are only 2 methods (not counting the Deprecated one)  exposed in the WorkFlowSession Class that starts a workflow:

Workflow	startWorkflow(WorkflowModel model, WorkflowData data)            Start a new Workflow instance with the given WorkflowModel and WorkflowData.
Workflow	startWorkflow(WorkflowModel model, WorkflowData data, Dictionary<String,String> metaData)            Deprecated. It's recommended to use #startWorkflow(WorkflowModel, WorkflowData, Map instead.
Workflow	startWorkflow(WorkflowModel model, WorkflowData data, Map<String,Object> metaData)            Start a new Workflow instance with the given WorkflowModel, WorkflowData and meta data.

Therefore you need a WorkflowModel and data,

In your use case - you need these as input - else it will not work.

How to trigger a workflow process programmatically?

[smacdonald2008]

Great answer!