Workflow Applications: Overview

Development Workflow Applications
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Workflow applications are used in processes to perform certain activities. You can also create your own custom workflow applications.

Built-in applications

WorkflowGen provides some built-in workflow applications, such as:

  • XMLTODATABASE: Export XML data to an SQL database

  • GETUSERSFROMDIR: Query the WorkflowGen directory to retrieve users

  • RAISEEXCEPTION: Trigger an exception on a request action (e.g. cancellation)

  • UPDATEPROCESSDATA: Update a request data

  • GETPROCESSDATA: Retrieve a request data

  • GETFORMDATA: Retrieve the form field values of a specific request.

  • COMPLETEACTION: Complete a request action

  • MERGEFORM: Merge multiple form data

  • CANCELREQUEST: Cancel an ongoing request

  • COPYDATA: Copy data from a parameter to a different data

  • SENDMESSAGE: Send SMS notifications from within a form

  • SENDHTTPPOST: Create outgoing webhooks to external systems

  • RESTAPICLIENT: Call REST API endpoints to exchange information with other applications through HTTP requests

  • EXECSQL: Execute one or multiple SQL queries in a process

  • JSONTODATA: Parse JSON content into process data

  • DOCUSIGNSEND & DOCUSIGNCHECK: Send one or more documents to DocuSign for electronic signature, and check the status of an envelope and download its associated file

  • ADOBESIGNSEND & ADOBESIGNCHECK: Send one or multiple documents to Adobe Sign for electronic signature, and verify the status of an agreement and download its associated file

  • DOCAPOSTESEND & DOCAPOSTECHECK: Send one or more documents to Docaposte for electronic signature, and check the status of a transaction and download the associated files

  • YOUSIGNSEND & YOUSIGNCHECK: Send one or more documents to Yousign for electronic signature, and verify the status of an agreement and download its associated file

  • OPENAITRANSCRIPTION: Interact with an OpenAI audio model to transcribe an audio file

  • OPENAICHAT: Interact with an OpenAI chat model

  • OPENAIADDMESSAGE: Update the message history of a conversation to add user or tool interactions, including directly from a sub-process

  • COUNTER: Manipulate a counter in a loop

  • GETAGENTTOOLDATA: Extract information from a tool that can be provided by an application such as OPENAICHAT

  • GETAGENTTOOL: Extract a tool and its information from a list of tools that can be provided by an application such as OPENAICHAT

.NET Assembly

The assembly workflow application type lets you declare a .NET class method as a workflow application. This is the fastest way to develop custom workflow applications (compared to web services). (See the Workflow applications section in the WorkflowGen Integration Guide for detailed instructions on .NET workflow application development.)

Execution performance is also better because WorkflowGen directly instantiates the assembly without network communication and without Web Service authentication.

You can create a method with standard parameters or by using a single workflow context parameter (WFGEN_CONTEXT) for more flexibility.

Workflow Application: Assembly: Use a .NET Class method as a Workflow Application

Workflow Application: Assembly: Use an assembly method with a workflow context parameter for more flexibility

Web Services

You can create Web Service workflow applications. WorkflowGen supports SOAP Web Services and WCF services.

Example of a Web Service (ASMX) declaration

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Web Services parameters

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Workflow Application: WCF Service compared to ASMX Web Service