I've done it, though my memory is fuzzy on the details. Basically, when
you schedule your AI job, it creates a record in a form. The form name
depends on the version of AI, but it's in the docs.
You can have workflow look for records matching your criteria entering that
form, and do what you want with it.
Rick
On Aug 3, 2015 8:04 AM, "Andrew Hicox" <and...@hicox.com> wrote:
> **
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a requirement to create a user interface whereby a spreadsheet is
> uploaded as an attachment, and used as an input to an atrium integrator job
> that will import/mangle data appropriately.
>
> Offhand, it seems like this ought to be possible. I suspect I could use a
> clever run-process to copy the attachment into a temp directory and have AI
> pick it up from there.
>
> However, I need some way of not only triggering the AI job in real time
> from workflow, but I also need a way to send a variable into the job at
> runtime (i.e. "process this specific filename right now"). Also (ideally)
> I'd need some way of capturing exceptions from AI and displaying a sensible
> error message to the user ("missing required data", "bad spreadsheet
> format", etc etc).
>
> Has anyone here ever attempted this sorta thing? If so, any pointers?
>
> -Andy
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