Get workflow id in Powershell script

Question

Can we get workflow id if we have workflow name in Powershell script?

Scenario 1:
I have workflow name "Test workflow" based on its name can I get its id in Powershell script?

Scenario 2:

Can we get workflow state id as well if I have workflow state name in Powershell script?

Answer 1

As per my understanding, you would like to get workflow ID based on workflow name only.

For your first scenario try this approach :

(Get-Item  -Path  "master:/sitecore/system/Workflows/<your workflow name>").ID

For your second scenario try the same approach and add your workflow state name like below :

(Get-Item  -Path  "master:/sitecore/system/Workflows/<your workflow name>/<your workflow state name>").ID

Answer 2

Scenario 1:

As we discussed in comments, If you don't have the Path and ID of the workflow item then you need to use a Query to get the item like below.

Get-Item -Path "master:" -Query "/sitecore/system/Workflows//*[@@templatename='Workflow']" | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "<Your Workflow Name>"}

So in the above query, we have to provide the location where Sitecore maintains all the workflows. i.e. /sitecore/system/Workflows

Using the above query, it will get all the items by filtering with the template name and item name.

Scenario 2:

Using the same approach we will get the children of the Workflow that we get from the query and then loop through its child items to identify the state like this.

$workflow = Get-Item -Path "master:" -Query "/sitecore/system/Workflows//*[@@templatename='Workflow']" | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "<Your state name>"} 

Get-ChildItem -ID $workflow.Id | Where-Object { $_.Name -eq "Deployed"} 

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

You can get the workflow id by using the below -

Scenario 1:

1st way - (Get-Item master: -ID $_."__Workflow state").Name

2nd way -

Get-ItemWorkflowEvent -Path master:\content\home

Output will be like this -

Date     : 2014-07-27 14:23:33
NewState : {190B1C84-F1BE-47ED-AA41-F42193D9C8FC}
OldState : {46DA5376-10DC-4B66-B464-AFDAA29DE84F}
Text     : Automated
User     : sitecore\admin

Date     : 2014-08-01 15:43:29
NewState : {190B1C84-F1BE-47ED-AA41-F42193D9C8FC}
OldState : {190B1C84-F1BE-47ED-AA41-F42193D9C8FC}
Text     : Just leaving a note
User     : sitecore\admin

Follow this - https://doc.sitecorepowershell.com/appendix/common/get-itemworkflowevent

Scenario 2: Try this, I haven't tested this.

(Get-Item master: -Name $_."__Workflow state").ID

Answer 4

Scenario 1: You can get an Id based on the path of workflow, like below:

Get-Item  -Path  "master:/sitecore/system/Workflows/Analytics Testing Workflow"

Scenario 2:

If you have different states in workflow like below:

You need to do the similar thing which you did in Scenario 1, need to pass state path and it will return the ID