My client would like to kick off a workflow based on a field changing in an outside database. Is this possible? Is there any documentation that could get me started in the right direction?
Out of the box, Workflow only monitors events in the Laserfiche repository for its starting rules.
Workflow does provide a web API for starting workflows, so you could write an application that monitors your external database and triggers workflows.
Depending on how urgent it is to process the changes to the external database, whether that database has an ODBC driver and how you can track those changes, you could also rely on a scheduled workflow that checks periodically for changes and acts on them in batches.
Hi Miruna good afternoon. We have a prospect that´s interested in monitoring events from their ERP system and trigger a form process. Is this possible?
They want to create a purchase request on their ERP system and have forms keep track of the process, along with authorization levels.
They want forms to kickoff from an event from their ERP. They mentioned something about EMF standards?
EVENT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (EMF)
Not aware of anything, but how is the change happening? If you are using workflow to change the DB, then you can probably make the next step to trigger the workflow.
What is the DB being used for? If it's metadata, you already can set the table to be the field choices in the template.
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