Start Workflow on Server Side

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If you want to start a specific Workflow on server-side in an action of your life-cycle object, it's straight forward. Simply use the workflow access object and call one method:

WorkflowAccess wfa = WorkflowAccess.getCurrentInstance();
Obejct id = wfa.startWorkflow(worfklowNameOrId);

But be careful, if you run above code outside the life-cycle scope, because

WorkflowAccess.getCurrentInstance();

tries to access the workflow access object from the current SessionContext.

If you don't run inside the life-cycle scope, use

WorkflowAccess wfa = new WorkflowAccess();
wfa.setDBAccess(dbAccess);

instead.