Master Data Services 2012 and SharePoint WorkFlow

During a discussion on this thread, we have discovered than MDS 2012 doesn't fire SharePoint WorkFlow with the Master Data Services  Workflow Windows Service (Microsoft.MasterDataServices.Workflow.Exe)

The SharePoint WorkFlow Extender :

Since i need making a SharePoint Workflow with MDS 2012, i have create the extender for SharePoint.

You can get the source code from the extender here : SharePointExtenderForMDS2012

By The Way, if you know how works an extender for MDS 2012, here is the code for the extender (included in the Project i have linked)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using Microsoft.MasterDataServices.WorkflowTypeExtender;
namespace Sharepoint.WorkflowExtender
{
public class SPWorkflow : IWorkflowTypeExtender
{
public void StartWorkflow(string workflowType, System.Xml.XmlElement dataElement)
{
var doc = XDocument.Parse(dataElement.OuterXml);
Dictionary<string, object> strs = new Dictionary<string, object>();
try
{
var externalAction =
(
from e in doc.Elements()
select new
{
Type = (string)e.Element(« Type »),
SendData = (string)e.Element(« SendData »),
Action_ID = (string)e.Element(« Action_ID »),
Server = (string)e.Element(« Server_URL »),
Model_ID = (int)e.Element(« Model_ID »),
Model_Name = (string)e.Element(« Model_Name »),
Entity_ID = (int)e.Element(« Entity_ID »),
Entity_Name = (string)e.Element(« Entity_Name »),
Version_ID = (int)e.Element(« Version_ID »),
Member_ID = (int)e.Element(« Member_ID »),
MemberData = new
{
Name = (string)e.Element(« MemberData »).Element(« Name »),
Code = (string)e.Element(« MemberData »).Element(« Code »),
Attributes = e.Element(« MemberData »).Elements().ToDictionary(ae => ae.Name, ae => ae.Value)
}
}
).Single();
var member = externalAction.MemberData;
DispatchSPWorkflow(externalAction.Server, externalAction.Action_ID, dataElement, strs);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
private static void DispatchSPWorkflow(string serverUrl, string workflowName, XmlNode dataElement,
Dictionary<string, object> sites)
{
SPSite sPSite;
SPWorkflowAssociation sPWorkflowAssociation;
object obj = null;
if (sites.TryGetValue(serverUrl, out obj))
{
sPSite = (SPSite)obj;
}
else
{
sPSite = new SPSite(serverUrl);
sites[serverUrl] = sPSite;
}
SPWeb sPWeb = sPSite.OpenWeb();
SPWorkflowManager workflowManager = sPSite.WorkflowManager;
sPWeb.WorkflowAssociations.UpdateAssociationsToLatestVersion();
foreach (SPWorkflowAssociation workflowAssociation in sPWeb.WorkflowAssociations)
{
if (!(workflowAssociation.Name == workflowName) || !workflowAssociation.AllowManual)
{
continue;
}
sPWorkflowAssociation = workflowAssociation;
break;
}
if (sPWorkflowAssociation != null)
{
workflowManager.StartWorkflow(null, sPWorkflowAssociation, dataElement.OuterXml, 1);
}
}
}
}

As always, this code is provided "as is" :)

You have (sorry in french) the explanation here : Master Data Services 2012 and SharePoint WorkFlow - Part 1

A complete Solution :

To make a complete a solution, which contains the Extender and a WorkFlow Sample, i create a second blog post who explain all the tasks to achieve this goal.

You can get the full source code (Extender AND Workflow project) here : SharePointExtenderForMDS2012AndWorkFlow

And by the way, you ll have explanations (again in french :)) here : Master Data Services 2012 and SharePoint WorkFlow - Part 2

Sébastien Pertus. Bewise