custom workflow - c# - get event that triggered?

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I would like to be able to set my custom workflow to be triggered by the 'create' and 'assigned'. Is there a way in the API that we can figure out what event triggered the flow? Maybe something in the CodeActivityContext?

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Gus Gonzalez 27,113 on at

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I don't understand the question...Workflows can be triggered automatically by Create and Assign.

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I would like to be able to determine in the workflow what triggered it. I need the workflow to behave differently based on how it was triggered. Something like:

if (from Create)
else if (from Assign)

..something similar. Right now I can get around this by just having two similar workflows, one called on each trigger but I think I saw somewhere you can see the trigger from workflow object.

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Gus Gonzalez 27,113 on at

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I would just create two workflows to be honest.

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Is there a way to tell? The code would change by one line by what triggered it.

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Gus Gonzalez 27,113 on at

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That's why I'm leaning towards two workflows.

You could put a "check condition" on the workflow where "if created on equals modified on" then fire workflow for "Created", if not (I.E. Assigned) then the dates won't match and the workflow fires the other code.

I still think that two workflows are easier to spot and troubleshoot if you run into issues.

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good point(s). thank you.

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Gus Gonzalez 27,113 on at

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No problem Scott, let me know if it worked.

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KaiHartmann1981 204 on at

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Given the CodeActivityContext is called 'executionContext', and you get the Context like this:

IWorkflowContext context = executionContext.GetExtension<IWorkflowContext>();

The 'MessageName' property holds the trigger name ("Delete", "Create", etc.): context.MessageName

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