Launching the Workflow

The final operation required of a Launch Step Processor is to launch (start) the workflow.

This assumes that you have created the workflow instance from a workflow definition file (from an Object store, File store, Content Services library, etc.), transferred it to the Process database (if needed), and have created the Launch step workflow instance. You launch a workflow using the VWStepElement.doDispatch() method. For example:

launchStep.doDispatch();

The doDispatch() method saves changes made to the work object associated with this Step element to the Process database and goes to the next step as defined in the workflow definition.