Initiate Document Workflow

Initiate a document workflow on a set of documents. If any document is not in the relevant state or does not meet configured field conditions, the API returns INVALID_DATA for the invalid documents and the workflow does not start.

POST/api/{version}/objects/documents/actions/{workflow_name}

Headers

Name	Description
`Content-Type`	`application/json` (default) or `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
`Accept`	`application/json` (default) or `application/xml`

URI Path Parameters

Name	Description
`{workflow_name}`	The document workflow `name` value.

Body Parameters

The following parameters are required, but an Admin may set other fields as required in your Vault. To find which fields are required to start this workflow, Retrieve Document Workflow Details.

Name	Description
`contents__sys`	Input a comma-separated list of document `id` field values. Maximum 100 documents.
`description__sys`	Description of the workflow. Maximum 128 characters.

Request

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: {SESSION_ID}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d "approver__c: user:83610" \
-d "exec_approver__c: user:10081" \
-d "contents__sys: 56,31,25" \
-d "description__sys: CSR Approval" \
https://myvault.veevavault.com/api/v22.3/objects/documents/actions/Objectworkflow.clinical_study_report_approval__c

Response : Success

{
    "responseStatus": "SUCCESS",
    "data": {
        "record_url": "/api/v22.3/vobjects/envelope__sys/0ER000000000501",
        "record_id__v": "0ER000000000501",
        "workflow_id": "1301"
    }
}

Response : Failure

{
    "responseStatus": "FAILURE",
    "errors": [
      {
      "type": "INVALID_DATA",
      "message": "Invalid value [94] specified for parameter [contents__sys] : documents are in invalid lifecycles"
    }
  ]
}

Response Details

On SUCCESS, the response includes the following:

Name	Description
`record_id__v`	The `id` value of the `envelope__sys` record.
`workflow_id`	The workflow `id` field value.

Manage Document Workflow Tasks

Document workflows share some of the same capabilities as object workflows and are configured on the envelope_sys object. You can use the Workflow Task endpoints to retrieve document workflow tasks, task details, and initiate document workflow tasks.

Remove Documents from Envelope

You can remove one or more documents from an envelope__sys object using the removecontent action in the Initiate Workflow Action endpoint.