How to execute an Action like 'Approved'?

As we transition to the new Hyland Community, some post links may be temporarily disrupted as we finalize redirects. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Details.

biland

Hello,

I have set up a simple workflow in the web client where is possible to Approve or Reject a document. The rule is defined against a folder that contains the document.
I want to execute the "Approved" action with web services but I don't know how to do that.
I see there is a an executeActions method described here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Action_Web_Service#executeActions
but I don't know how the actual Action object should be built.
If I read all NamedValue-s of the document that I want to run the "Approve" action against, I can see values like:
{http://www.alfresco.org/model/application/1.0}approveStep = Approved
but I don't know what this means.
So is there any simple example how to execute an Action with web services?

Thanks,
Biland

rwetherall

Hi,

Here is a quick example on how to execute an action using the web service API.

        Predicate predicate = new Predicate(new Reference[]{BaseWebServiceSystemTest.contentReference}, BaseWebServiceSystemTest.store, null);

        // Create the action to add the versionable aspect
        NamedValue[] parameters = new NamedValue[]{new NamedValue("aspect-name", false, Constants.ASPECT_VERSIONABLE, null)};        
        Action newAction1 = new Action();
        newAction1.setActionName("add-features");
        newAction1.setTitle("Add the versionable aspect to the node.");
        newAction1.setDescription("This will add the verisonable aspect to the node and thus create a version history.");
        newAction1.setParameters(parameters);        
        
        // Execute the action
        ActionExecutionResult[] results = this.actionService.executeActions(predicate, new Action[]{newAction1});
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Cheers,
Roy