What is a Business Object?

FlowWright business object (BO) is an object that gives real-time access to business objects from other systems/applications.  Think of it as a proxy for business objects.  Business objects are implemented using a simple interface, “FWBusinessObject.” 

Watch the following video on creating and using a business object in a process.

Here's the code from the example:

namespace FW10CustomItems
{
    public class clsPerson
    {
        public string name { get; set; }
        public int age { get; set; }
        public string result { get; set; }
 
        public clsPerson(string name, int age, string result)
        {
            this.name = name;
            this.age = age;
            this.result = result;
        }
    }
}

using FlowWright.Engine;
using System.Collections;
 
namespace FW10CustomItems
{
    public class FWPersonBO : IFWBusinessObject
    {
        public object GetObject(FWEngineContext oEngineContext, Hashtable oInputParameters)
        {
            clsPerson oPerson = new clsPerson(oInputParameters["name"].ToString(), int.Parse(oInputParameters["age"].ToString()), oInputParameters["result"].ToString());
 
            return (oPerson);
        }
 
        public List<string> GetInputParameterKeys()
        {
            List<string> oList = new List<string>();
 
            oList.Add("name");
            oList.Add("age");
            oList.Add("result");
 
            return (oList);
        }
 
        public Type GetObjectType()
        {
            return (typeof(clsPerson));
        }
 
        public List<string> GetDynamicPropertyList()
        {
            List<string> oList = new List<string>();
 
            oList.Add("alpha");
            oList.Add("beta");
 
            return (oList);
        }
 
        public string GetDynamicPropertyValue(FWEngineContext oContext, string key)
        {
            return ("3");
        }
 
        public bool SetDynamicPropertyValue(FWEngineContext oContext, string key, string val)
        {
            try
            {
                File.AppendAllText(@"c:\temp\eventdata\dyna.txt", oContext.BusinessObject.Name + " - " + key + " - " + val + Environment.NewLine);
            }
            catch { }
 
            return (true);
        }
    }
}