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Retrieve Workflow Actions

Retrieve all available workflow actions that can be initiated on a specific object workflow.

GET/api/{version}/objects/objectworkflows/{workflow_id}/actions
NameDescription
Acceptapplication/json (default) or application/xml
NameDescription
{workflow_id}The workflow id field value.
NameDescription
locWhen localized (translated) strings are available, retrieve them by including loc=true.
curl -X GET -H "Authorization: {SESSION_ID}" \
https://myvault.veevavault.com/api/v20.2/objects/objectworkflows/801/actions
{
  "responseStatus": "SUCCESS",
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "startApproval",
      "label": "Start Approval"
    },
    {
      "name": "cancel",
      "label": "Cancel"
    }
  ]
}
curl -X GET "Authorization: {SESSION_ID}" \
  https://myvault.veevavault.com/api/v20.2/objects/objectworkflows/1801/actions/removecontent
{
   "responseStatus": "SUCCESS",
   "data": {
       "name": "removecontent",
       "label": "Remove Content",
       "controls": [
           {
               "label": "Documents",
               "type": "documents",
               "prompts": [
                   {
                       "name": "documents__sys",
                       "label": "Documents",
                       "required": true
                   }
               ],
               "current_values": [
                   {
                       "document_id__v": "67"
                   },
                   {
                       "document_id__v": "41"
                   }
               ]
           }
       ]
   }
}

On SUCCESS, the response lists all available workflow actions that can be initiated on the object record. Each action includes the following fields:

  • name - The workflow action name used to initiate the workflow in the request below.
  • label - The workflow action label as seen in the UI.

###Retrieve Workflow Action Details

Retrieve details about a workflow action. For example, the prompts needed to complete a workflow action.

GET/api/{version}/objects/objectworkflows/{workflow_id}/actions/{workflow_action}
NameDescription
Acceptapplication/json (default) or application/xml
NameDescription
{workflow_id}The workflow id field value.
{workflow_action}The name of the workflow action. To get this value, you can Retrieve Workflow Actions.
curl -X GET -H "Authorization: {SESSION_ID}" \
https://myvault.veevavault.com/api/v20.2/objects/objectworkflows/801/actions
{
  "responseStatus": "SUCCESS",
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "startApproval",
      "label": "Start Approval"
    },
    {
      "name": "cancel",
      "label": "Cancel"
    }
  ]
}
curl -X GET "Authorization: {SESSION_ID}" \
  https://myvault.veevavault.com/api/v20.2/objects/objectworkflows/1801/actions/removecontent
{
   "responseStatus": "SUCCESS",
   "data": {
       "name": "removecontent",
       "label": "Remove Content",
       "controls": [
           {
               "label": "Documents",
               "type": "documents",
               "prompts": [
                   {
                       "name": "documents__sys",
                       "label": "Documents",
                       "required": true
                   }
               ],
               "current_values": [
                   {
                       "document_id__v": "67"
                   },
                   {
                       "document_id__v": "41"
                   }
               ]
           }
       ]
   }
}

On SUCCESS, the response lists all prompts required to complete a workflow action. In the example response, the removecontent workflow action requires a value for documents__sys.