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selvaganesh
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Initiate workflow in Touch UI author

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How to initiate workflow for a page in Touch UI author mode. I find that option in sidekick classic UI only

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Best answer by smacdonald2008

Build a custom Touch UI toolbar action that invokes an AEM service.

You can see how to build a custom toolbar action by watching this session (using Touch UI APIS) :

http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.5_ciot.html/forum__yp9e-you_can_watchthese.html

In the AEM service - use the Workflow APIs to kickoff a workflow. See: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/invoking-experience-manager-workflows-using.html

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October 16, 2015

Build a custom Touch UI toolbar action that invokes an AEM service.

You can see how to build a custom toolbar action by watching this session (using Touch UI APIS) :

http://help-forums.adobe.com/content/adobeforums/en/experience-manager-forum/adobe-experience-manager.topic.5_ciot.html/forum__yp9e-you_can_watchthese.html

In the AEM service - use the Workflow APIs to kickoff a workflow. See: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/invoking-experience-manager-workflows-using.html

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October 16, 2015

I read that in AEM 6.1 releasing next month seems to provide this feature in the touch UI to start a workflow. Below is the reference 

http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/deploy/best-practices/ui-recommendations.html#Touch-Optimized UI Improvements