5.5.1

Workflow Object
A Workflow object represents an Orchestrator workflow that defines a certain sequence of tasks, decisions,
and operations.
Users with the correct permissions can obtain specific Workflow objects by name or by ID, or they can obtain
all the workflows they have the permission to see.
Orchestrator provides the following operations to obtain Workflow objects.
public Workflow[] getWorkflowsWithName(String workflowName, String username, String password);
public Workflow getWorkflowForId(String workflowId, String username, String password);
public Workflow[] getAllWorkflows(String username, String password);
The following table shows the properties of the Workflow object.
Type Value Description
String
id
The workflow ID.
The id string is a globally unique ID
string. Workflows that Orchestrator
creates have identifiers that are very
large strings, with a very low
probability of namespace collision.
String
name
The name of the workflow, as it
appears in the workflow's Name text
box in Orchestrator.
String
description
A detailed description of what the
workflow does.
WorkflowParameter[] inParameters The inParameters array is the set of
WorkflowParameter objects that are
the workflow's input parameters. The
workflow can manipulate these input
parameters or use them directly as the
input parameters for tasks and other
workflows.
You can set up arbitrary input
parameters to provide any necessary
input parameters. Omitting a required
parameter at runtime causes the
workflow to fail.
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