How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

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The code below executes several Asynchronous On-Demand Workflows within the appropriate if/else section.

I was forced to hardcode the Guid of each workflow directly in the code due to time constraints.

Ideally, I would like to get the Guid of the workflow by its name.

How would I do that exactly within the context of the code below?

function setOpportunityServiceAddress(executionContext) {
    var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();
    var CurrentRecordId = formContext.data.entity.getId();
    CurrentRecordId = CurrentRecordId.replace("{", "").replace("}", "");
    var customer = formContext.getAttribute("ace_customer").getValue();
    var customerType = customer[0].entityType;
    var OptVal = formContext.getAttribute("ace_serviceaddress").getValue();
    var WkflowId = "";
    var clientUrl = "";
    var requestUri = "";
    var xhr = "";
    var IsDirty = "";
    if (OptVal == 100000000) {
        if (customerType == "contact") {
            //WkflowId = GetWorkflowIDByURL(executionContext, "/api/data/v9.1/workflows?$select=workflowidunique&$filter=(name eq 'Opportunity - (On Demand) Copy Related Contact Address to Service Address' and statuscode eq 2)&$top=1");
            WkflowId = "fc67a661-9e41-49b5-b1ca-79eaaf9eadd4";
            clientUrl = formContext.context.getClientUrl();
            requestUri = clientUrl   "/api/data/v9.0/workflows("   WkflowId   ")/Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.ExecuteWorkflow";
            xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            xhr.open("POST", requestUri, true);
            xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
            xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
            xhr.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
            xhr.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
            xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
                if (this.readyState == 4) {
                    xhr.onreadystatechange = null;
                    if (this.status == 200) {
                        var result = JSON.parse(this.response);
                    } 
                        else {
                            var error = JSON.parse(this.response).error;
                        }
                }
            };
            xhr.send("{\"EntityId\":\""   CurrentRecordId   "\"}");
                
        } else if (customerType == "account") {
            //WkflowId = GetWorkflowIDByURL(executionContext, "/api/data/v9.1/workflows?$select=workflowidunique&$filter=(name eq 'Opportunity - (On Demand) Copy Related Account Address to Service Address' and statuscode eq 2)&$top=1");
            WkflowId = "9e5b668c-2feb-4d92-abfa-5af7194a02df";
            clientUrl = formContext.context.getClientUrl();
            requestUri = clientUrl   "/api/data/v9.0/workflows("   WkflowId   ")/Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.ExecuteWorkflow";
            xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            xhr.open("POST", requestUri, true);
            xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
            xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
            xhr.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
            xhr.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
            xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
                if (this.readyState == 4) {
                    xhr.onreadystatechange = null;
                    if (this.status == 200) {
                        var result = JSON.parse(this.response);
                    } 
                        else {
                            var error = JSON.parse(this.response).error;
                        }
                }
            };
            xhr.send("{\"EntityId\":\""   CurrentRecordId   "\"}");
        }

    } else if (OptVal == 100000001); {
       ////DO SOME STUFF
    }
}

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RE: How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

In dynamics 365, workflow are stored in SQL in table: WorkflowTable, there are fields like Name and Recid.

do you mean to find the Recid value by Name?

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RE: How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

Hi Jim,

You can use web Api to retrieve workflow with the name as filter:

You can download & install Rest Builder tool to build the web api query-

Refer this blog: https://carldesouza.com/dynamics-crm-rest-builder/

You can download the tool here: https://github.com/jlattimer/CRMRESTBuilder/releases

1.create web api:

2.excute:

3.Test:

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Leah Ju

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RE: How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

When I use the rest builder I get back three workflows as shown below. If I further filter by statecode = Active I get back two. The funny thing is I have only 1 workflow with the name I am querying by so I do not understand why that one workflow shows up as 2 with statecode = Active.

0:{entities:[0:{@odata.etag:"W/"19655343"",workflowid:"fdd51e2c-3734-eb11-a813-000d3a5a7103",workflowidunique:"06f60cd6-ad33-4ce5-a9ba-9664d62260eb"},1:{@odata.etag:"W/"19655329"",workflowid:"81d57fe1-f931-eb11-a813-000d3a5a7ad8",workflowidunique:"cd6f1b6f-fe66-433e-a1b0-f04c168d6194"},2:{@odata.etag:"W/"19655369"",workflowid:"fc67a661-9e41-49b5-b1ca-79eaaf9eadd4",workflowidunique:"126382c3-fa59-4fe0-9551-5c692c25954a"}]}

I get the same result of two returned workflows with XRMToolbox as well. How can I make sure on the correct one is returned or how do I know which one is the correct so I can make my code only care about the correct Guid?

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RE: How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

Hi Jim,

You can add filter, just like following screenshot shown:

Excute code, now just one result and the workflowid is correct.

And it is original results, it return two results.

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Leah Ju

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RE: How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

Thanks. I was able to do that in the Rest Builder but there appears to be a glitch.

Instead of statuscode = activated or 1 or whatever it should be, the rest bulder produces statuscode eq eq as shown below.

Xrm.WebApi.online.retrieveMultipleRecords("workflow", "?$select=workflowid,workflowidunique&$filter=name eq 'Opportunity - (On Demand) Copy Related Contact Address to Service Address' and _parentworkflowid_value eq null and statuscode eq eq").then( function success(results) { for (var i = 0; i < results.entities.length; i ) { var workflowid = results.entities[i]["workflowid"]; var workflowidunique = results.entities[i]["workflowidunique"]; } }, function(error) { Xrm.Utility.alertDialog(error.message); } );

What should it be?

If I manually change it to statuscode = 1 and try to execute it in my browser before taking it to code as shown below...

.... I get nothing back as shown below

If I remove the statuscode = 1 and execute that, I get 2 workflows back...

What does that last part need to be of the code with respect to statuscode = activated or statuscode = 1 exactly to execute properly?

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RE: How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

Hi Jim,

It may a little mistake of the tool, you can manually change statuscode value in the code.

And you can use: statuscode eq 2

Just like following:

XXXXXXXX.crm.dynamics.com/.../workflows eq 'test%20opp%20workflow' and _parentworkflowid_value eq null and statuscode eq 2

Test result:

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Leah Ju

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Hi Partner,

Has the problem been solved? Any updates?

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Thanks.

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RE: How can I Get the Guid of a Workflow via Unified Interface D365 V9.1 Compliant JavaScript from the Workflow's Name

Fantastic! I learned a ton from you on this. Thank you very much for all of your assistance!

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