Initiate workflow in Touch UI author

[selvaganesh]

How to initiate workflow for a page in Touch UI author mode. I find that option in sidekick classic UI only

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

Build a custom Touch UI toolbar action that invokes an AEM service.

You can see how to build a custom toolbar action by watching this session (using Touch UI APIS) :

http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manage...

In the AEM service - use the Workflow APIs to kickoff a workflow. See: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/invoking-experience-manager-workflows-using.html

[vijayraj_vk]

I read that in AEM 6.1 releasing next month seems to provide this feature in the touch UI to start a workflow. Below is the reference 

http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/deploy/best-practices/ui-recommendations.html#Touch-Optimized UI Improvements