How to set value to form control (subform) using API

I now have a process starting by a form which includes sub-form, allowing user to apply multiple items in same process instance.

But the thing is, I may have to start the process through external form.

so I call the API "CreateProcInst" when user applying something from external form,

and pass the value which user applied to parameter "Attributes".

It worked fine if user only have one thing to apply like this pic below

But I failed to pass multiple items' value, and if I change the "Name" field to "XXX:[*]" like it said in the Data Model, I will get an Invalid token error.

I tried to start a process from Agilepoint, applying multiple items.

Then I checked the data in Runtime Management, and the Xpath was with index at the end.I tried to copy that Xpath and change the parameters of API CreateProcInst.

But still, the process created only contained one item in subform.

Should I create a form variable (SubFormItem) from API of any kind or what? Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Josephine

March 25, 2021 01:20
Edited

In additional, I tried to send data following the structure of what I saw from Runtime Management like pic.

But the result was like this

Also, I noticed that when Creating Process Instance from AgilePoint Application, the "CustomAttributes" of that specific event was null.

I guess the content the form passed was in the "ParamsXml" field's "UserContext", is it possible if I just send data through that field?

Patrick Franklin

July 27, 2023 19:35

Hello Josephine. Did you ever get this working?

July 28, 2023 00:18

Hi Patrick, sadly, no.

My workaround solution is instead of sending all the data while creating process, I wrote another API using PID as param to get data in json format.

Hope this helps.

How to set value to form control (subform) using API

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