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Workflow Store

The Workflow Store web service provides methods for creating, retrieving and updating workflow definitions that identify the data cleansing services to apply. The web service definition is available at
https://webservices.data-8.co.uk/batch/v1.0/workflowstore.asmx.

A large number of data cleansing services are available via Foundation Technology, all of which provide value to different people. You may choose that you want to process your data against all the available services in order to retrieve a comprehensive audit of your data quality, or you may choose to only process against the services you know you are interested in in order to get your cleansed data back quicker.

Each workflow definition must be given a unique name to allow it to be referenced when using it to start a new job.

• GetWorkflows
  Get a list of the names of existing workflow definitions.
• GetWorkflowDetails
  Get the full definition of a named workflow.
• UpdateWorkflow
  Create a new workflow definition or update an existing one.
• DeleteWorkflow
  Deletes an existing workflow definition.
• GenerateWorkflowFromPreviousJob
  Generate a workflow definition based on a job previously processed manually through Data8Online.

• Workflow
  Defines a workflow, including the services to apply and notification options.
• GoneawayServices
  Enumerates the available goneaway data sources.
• DeceasedServices
  Enumerates the available movers data sources.
• DeceasedServices
  Enumerates the available deceased data sources.
• NCOAProcessingType
  Enumerates the options on how records found with a new address should be handled.

The following code illustrates how to configure the workflow definition for a workflow to perform telephone number appending and TPS screening.

            /// <summary>
            /// Defines the name to use for the workflow definition.
            /// </summary>
            private const string WORKFLOW_NAME   = "TeleAppendTPS";
            
            /// <summary>
            /// Checks if the workflow definition exists, and creates it if it is missing.
            /// </summary>
            private void ConfigureWorkflow()
            {
                // Check if the workflow already exists.
                WorkflowStore proxy = new WorkflowStore();
                Workflow workflow = proxy.GetWorkflowDetails(Username, Password, WORKFLOW_NAME);
                
                if (workflow == null)
                {
                    // Workflow is not defined - create it.
                    workflow = new Workflow();
                    workflow.Name = WORKFLOW_NAME;
                    workflow.TelNoAppendOSIS = true;
                    workflow.TPSExisting = true;
                    workflow.TPSOSIS = true;
                    
                    proxy.UpdateWorkflow(Username, Password, workflow);
                }
            }