Run workflow on selected list/library items

I think you could come up with something close - if you had a metadata field that you marked (ShouldRunWorkflow): (such as yes/no) and then you could query all the items with this metadata marked as yes and have the workflow query for this list and act on them collectively.   You could then have the workflow reset this value to No in case you wanted it to run again or not run again at another time.   This is just a quick thought, but might get you started in the right direction.

-Mike

Hi John,

You can do this with client side rendering. I've pasted a very simple version of the script you'll need below, you'll need to edit it to point at the correct workflow and list name. For simplicity I've added the item ID as the last column in the list view so I can find it easily, then just use the following script as your JS Link source:

(function () {
  
    (window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.10.0.min.js"></script>'));

    var viewContext = {};
    viewContext.Templates = {};

    viewContext.Templates.Footer = "<div><input type='button' Value='Start Workflow on ID for Selected' onclick='StartWorkflowOnSelectedItems();'></div>";
  
    SPClientTemplates.TemplateManager.RegisterTemplateOverrides(viewContext);

})();

function StartWorkflowOnSelectedItems()
{ 

  $('.s4-itm-selected').each(function(){   

    var listitemid = $(this).find('.ms-vb-lastCell')[0].innerText; 
    startworkflowonlistitemcsr("Workflow Name", listitemid , "List Name");

  });

}

function startworkflowonlistitemcsr(wfName, itemId, listName) {
  

    var associationData = '';
    var webMethod = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + '/_vti_bin/NintexWorkflow/Workflow.asmx';
    var soap = "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>" +
                            "<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap=""http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">" +
                              "<soap:Body>" +
                                "<StartWorkflowOnListItem xmlns=""http://nintex.com">" +
                                  "<itemId>" + itemId + "</itemId>" +
                                  "<listName>" + listName + "</listName>" +
                                  "<workflowName>" + wfName + "</workflowName>" +
                                  "<associationData></associationData>" +
                                "</StartWorkflowOnListItem>" +
                              "</soap:Body>" +
                            "</soap:Envelope>";

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: webMethod,
        beforeSend: function (xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://nintex.com/StartWorkflowOnListItem"); },
        data: soap,
        contentType: "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "xml",
        success: function (data) {
           
        },
        error: function (e) {         
           
        }

    });
}

Jan

Hi,

This is SharePoint's client side rendering logic, you'll need to upload the script to the master page gallery and then reference it in the JS Link property on the view web part. An overview is here, Introduction to Client-Side Rendering in SharePoint 2013 | Kaptyn

Jan