Run a workflow using JavaScript in CRM 2011

Run a workflow using JavaScript in CRM 2011

Here is the code to run workflow using JavaScript

function RunWorkFlow() {

    var entityId = Xrm.Page.data.entity.getId().substring(1, 37); //Guid of record that workflow is to run on.

    var workflowId = "090227fa-68ad-453b-8ea5-3ca63058d240"; //Workflow Guid.

    var url = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl();

    var OrgServicePath = "/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc/web";

    url = url + OrgServicePath;

    var request;

    request = "<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">" +

              "<s:Body>" +

                "<Execute xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services\" xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">" +

                    "<request i:type=\"b:ExecuteWorkflowRequest\" xmlns:a=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts\" xmlns:b=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2011/Contracts\">" +

                    "<a:Parameters xmlns:c=\"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic\">" +

                        "<a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>" +

                        "<c:key>EntityId</c:key>" +

                        "<c:value i:type=\"d:guid\" xmlns:d=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/\">" + entityId + "</c:value>" +

                        "</a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>" +

                        "<a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>" +

                        "<c:key>WorkflowId</c:key>" +

                        "<c:value i:type=\"d:guid\" xmlns:d=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/\">" + workflowId + "</c:value>" +

                        "</a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>" +

                    "</a:Parameters>" +

                    "<a:RequestId i:nil=\"true\" />" +

                    "<a:RequestName>ExecuteWorkflow</a:RequestName>" +

                    "</request>" +

                "</Execute>" +

                "</s:Body>" +

            "</s:Envelope>";

    var req = new XMLHttpRequest();

    req.open("POST", url, true)

    // Responses will return XML. It isn't possible to return JSON.

    req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/xml, text/xml, */*");

    req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");

    req.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services/IOrganizationService/Execute");

    req.onreadystatechange = function () { assignResponse(req); };

    req.send(request);

}

function assignResponse(req) {

    if (req.readyState == 4) {

        if (req.status == 200) {

            //alert('successfully executed the workflow');

        }

    }

}

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Happy CRM’ing

Gopinath