Launching Workflow Processes

The Active Sync wizard allows an administrator to specify a pre-poll and post-poll workflow. These workflows are similar in concept to the workflows discussed in Reconciliation Workflows.

Some Active Sync-enabled adapters support a resource attribute that runs a specified workflow instead of checking the pulled changes into the user view. This workflow is run with an input variable of only the Active Sync data. For adapters that do not support a separate process, or one where you want to use the standard user form and then launch a process, you can override the process by setting options.

<Form>
    <Field name=’sourceOptions.Process’>
       <Expansion>
          <s>My workflow process name</s>
       </Expansion>
    </Field>
 </Form>

The workflow specified through the form is called just like a standard provisioning workflow. Sun strongly recommends that you base your custom workflow on the standard create and update workflow. Consult the create and update user workflows in workflow.xml.