IBM Business Automation Workflow V 19.0.0.1

Interacting with a parent case from a process

In processes that implement case activities, you can interact with the JavaScript case operations through the new operations that have been added to the TWProcessInstance JavaScript API in Business Automation Workflow.

For more information about the TWProcessInstance JavaScript API, see TWProcessInstance.

  • addCommentToParentActivity
  • addCommentToParentCase
  • completeParentCaseStage
  • createCaseUsingSameCaseType
  • createCaseUsingSpecifiedCaseType
  • createDiscretionaryActivityInParentCase
  • createDiscretionaryActivityInParentCaseWithWorkflowParams
  • createParentCaseDiscretionaryActivityWithProps
  • createSubfolderUnderParentCase
  • getParentActivityPropertyNames
  • getParentActivityPropertyValues
  • getParentCaseCasePropertyNames
  • getParentCaseCasePropertyValues
  • getParentCaseStructure
  • relateParentCase
  • searchParentCaseActivities
  • setParentActivityPropertyValues
  • setParentCaseCasePropertyValues
  • unrelateParentCase

For information about using new or existing processes to implement case activities, see Adding an activity with a new process and Adding an activity with an existing process.

To work with case properties, in addition to the operations enumerated earlier, you can also use one of the following new services that are available in the Content Management toolkit. For more information, see the documentation provided with the service.
  • ECM Update Content Object Properties Service
  • ECM Get Content Object Property Service
  • ECM Get Content Object Properties Service
  • ECM Update Content Object Property Service

To work with the parent case from your process instance, you can use the parentCaseId and parentCaseServerName properties that are available in the TWProcessInstance object.

Runtime synchronization of content objects

IBM® Business Automation Workflow and IBM Case Manager have access to content objects. When a Business Automation Workflow process runs from a case activity, the process has access to the case content objects. Any updates to content objects in a Business Automation Workflow process show up synchronously in the IBM Case Manager case or activity. Similarly, content object updates from within the IBM Case Manager case or activity are synchronously made available to the Business Automation Workflow process.