Hello,
I'm trying to set up a user journey whereby a record that is used in the last stage of a business process flow (Call it BPF 1) can be switched over to a new process flow (BPF 2) upon finishing the first flow, and ideally achieving this via a workflow.
Prior to v9 this could be achieved by calling the SetProcess action on the workflow, however this is now marked as depreciated. With the new structure to the business process flows where you can create a record for the new business process flow (which I understand is the replacement for SetProcess), I can create the new instance of the BPF and set the active stage, but because the entity in question was previously under BPF1, even though BPF2 gets created the entity record doesn't actually get switched to that flow automatically. The automatic switching over to the new flow still happens if you do use the SetProcess action, but with this being marked for being deprecated, does anyone know what the alternative is supposed to be in v9?
Thanks
Oliver
Hi Wahaj,
The steps you are describing are to trigger the business process flow against the record. That side of things is all working fine but is not really the issue. The problem is that if the record is already in the middle of a previous business process flow, I'm not able to switch it to the newly assigned one to use that as the active flow.
The flow connects to the record without any issue, and if I click 'Switch Process' on the record I can see the new flow there as an in progress one to switch to, and if i choose it then it switches over fine and everything is set up correctly. In addition if the record does not have an existing business process flow already active against it, then it is also working fine and the new flow gets auto activated as its the only one.
The specific issue is that once the business process flow is created and linked, how do you switch it to be the active process if one is already running against the record, as this doesn't happen automatically, where as the old depreciated "SetProcess" action does exactly this.
Kind Regards
Oliver
Hi,
Thank you for your query.
Yes, you have to create a Business Process flow entity record.
Are you setting the related record lookup in the BPF entity record? For example:
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