Integration with Windows PowerShell

Flowable Engine
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I would like to ask: how can I get Flowable to run Powershell scripts as a service task? Even better if it can input parameters and retrieve results from the Powershell scripts.

I am asking because have a primarily Windows environment with lots of PowerShell scripts already available for day-to-day administrative tasks, and is now looking at Flowable to implement an approval workflow that can automate the servicing of requests.

Thanks for any advice in advance.

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Hi.

Technically you can run system commands from Java (or another language that runs on the JVM).
That means you can run them from a Service Task or Script Task.
But; implementing something like this raises serious security concerns. And should be addressed.

This is one of the reasons we provide the ‘secure scripting’ feature. (http://www.flowable.org/docs/userguide/index.html#advancedSecureScripting)

Regards,

Yvo