Sending and waiting for custom events

This recipe will showcase how to send interactions between workflows. This is mostly used together with asynchronous workflows, which we will explain in the recipe Using asynchronous workflows in this chapter.

Getting ready

We need to be able to create two workflows.

We will reuse the getNow action that we created in the recipe Waiting tasks in this chapter (see the com.packtpub.Orchestrator-Cookbook2ndEdition.helpers module in the example pack).

How to do it...

This recipe requires us to create two workflows and then use them together.

Receiving a custom event

First, we create the receiving part:

1. Create a new workflow using the setup shown in the following figure:

   

2. Create the following variables:

   Name	Type	Section	Use
   isExternalEvent	Number	Attribute Value: false	This is a setting to indicate where Orchestrator has to listen to for the event.
   eventName	String	IN	This is a string that contains the event identifier.
   endDate	Date	IN...