How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

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Hi All,

I have around 30 or more business process flows and I cannot have all the processes in one design since there is a limitation in dynamics 365 on number of entities and conditions we can specify. I have therefore created a multiple business process flows which will be triggered on change of a field value. (application type as shown in the image below).

supposing: I wanted;

business process flow 1 to run/be active if the Application type is A
business process flow 2 to run/be active if the Application type is B
business process flow3 to run/be active if the Application type is C, D, E

I am just wondering if there is a way to automate this process using the out-of- box functionality or ISV solution. if not does it require a plugin or a JS to do this. Appreciate if someone could share your knowledge if you have come across such problems. A JS or ISV solution or anything will be helpful to me since I am fairly new to this environment.

Thank you

TPY

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LeoAlt 16,329 on at

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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi partner,

Thanks so much for your recognition :-)

It is possible to use different conditions to switch different BPF in your code, just follow your requirement.

Have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Leo
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Thanks Leo, its working now, i found an event handler for change process existed for this error to occur. Its working fine now, and thanks heaps for you help.

Last thing, if i have to add one more if condition in the code to select a different business process with different id, would it work?

Something like below; to switch between the two.

It returned an error when i tried.

Thank you,

TPY
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi partner,

1.The first error is unrelated to our "switchBPF" code because you added the method on the Onchange event not Onload event. So I think that you should check the methods which added in Onload event.

2.I did not find any problem in your code, so did you select "Pass execution context as first parameter" when you add the method to event?

Beacuse if you did not select this, "executionContext" will not be defined in your code.

Hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Leo
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi Leo,

I get these two errors. One, when opening new or refreshing an application page.

and this one when changing application type field.

Thank you heaps,

TPY
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi Leo,

I have checked the web resource and didn't find any other function by the name "change process".

I have used the exact code that you sent and this script error is still there.

In order for you to understand better, i have below screen shot showing where and how i have set the function on the form properties and field.

Thanks heaps,

Regards

TPY
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi partner,

There is no such function named "changeprocess" in my code here, could you share you code or check it again?

Best Regards,

Leo
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi Leo,

Thanks a lot for your feedback on the code and sending over the corrected one. I have used the same code in my environment and it returns the below script error which i have no clue of. Could you please advice what this is and why its popping on screen on creation of new application.

thank you heaps,

Regards

TPY
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LeoAlt 16,329 on at

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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi partner,

There are some error in your code.

1. The "formceontext" you defined and used are different,use the same uppercase and lowercase letters.

2.The Double quotation marks beside "Success" should be English half Angle symbol like others in your code.

3.The variable "statuscode" is not defined in your code.

4.Please make sure that all the fields you used in your code should be added into form.

5.The function name "callBackFunction" are different between defined and used.

6.gettext should change to "getText".

7.We don't need to add %7b %7d between processid.

8.If the action successfully change the BPF, the result is "success" not "Success".

I tried the updated code in my instance and it worked well.

function switchBPF(executioncontext) {

var formContext = executioncontext.getFormContext();

var statusreason = formContext.getAttribute("statuscode").getValue();

var Application_type = formContext.getAttribute("dlg_applicationtype").getText();

var activeProcessID = formContext.data.process.getActiveProcess().getId();

if (statusreason != null) {

if (Application_type == "Exemption Declaration" && activeProcessID.toUpperCase() != "76F74370-E600-44D3-A6F2-8716DC2D33B1")

formContext.data.process.setActiveProcess("76F74370-E600-44D3-A6F2-8716DC2D33B1", callbackFunction);

}

}

function callbackFunction(result) {

if (result == "success") {

alert("BPF successful")

}

else {

alert("Failed");

}

}

Hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Leo
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi Leo,

Thank you for the link and the code. Appreciate if you could elaborate a little more on the code. With the help of your code, I have tried to do the below script, but failed to yield any result. If you could please have a look at it and help me.

function switchBPF(executioncontext) {

var formcontext = executioncontext.getFormContext();

var statusreason = formContext.getAttribute("statuscode").getValue();

var Application_type = formContext.getAttribute("dlg_applicationtype").gettext();

var activeProcessID = formContext.data.process.getActiveProcess().getId();

if (statuscode !=null){

if (Application_type == "Exemption Declaration" && activeProcessID.toUpperCase()!= "%7b76F74370-E600-44D3-A6F2-8716DC2D33B1%7d")

formContext.data.process.setActiveProcess("%7b76F74370-E600-44D3-A6F2-8716DC2D33B1%7d", callbackFunction);

}

};

function callBackFunction(result)

{

if(result == “Success”)

{

alert("BPF successful")

}

else

{

alert ("Failed");

}

}

Thanks heaps

TPY.
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RE: How to Switch Business Process Flow automatically

Hi Juneidi,

Thank you for your response. I have gone through it and this still mentions the limitations on the number of entities and conditions we can specify in the design. (image below), unless its different in new UI.

regards.