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1. Add a button on Form’s Toolbar/Grid’s Menu Bar for the entity in ISV config file (export ISV config)
2. Call launchOnDemandWorkflowForm (for button on Form) or launchOnDemandWorkflow (for button on grid) functions and pass the parameters sGrid, iObjType and workflowId.
3. Save the config file and import it to CRM.

An example of this could be:

<Entity name="account">
<ToolBar ValidForCreate="0" ValidForUpdate="1">
<Button Icon="/_imgs/mybutton.jpg" JavaScript="launchOnDemandWorkflowForm('', '10029','{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000-00000}');" PassParams="1" WinParams="" WinMode="0">
<Titles>
<Title LCID="1033" Text="Send Email" />
</Titles>
<ToolTips>
<ToolTip LCID="1033" Text="Send Welcome Email" />
</ToolTips>
</Button>
</Entity>

Or you can alternatively request it from the web service:

/* the function */
ExecuteWorkflow = function(entityId, workflowId)
{
var xml = "" +
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" +
"<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">" +
GenerateAuthenticationHeader() +
" <soap:Body>" +
" <Execute xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices\">" +
" <Request xsi:type=\"ExecuteWorkflowRequest\">" +
" <EntityId>" + entityId + "</EntityId>" +
" <WorkflowId>" + workflowId + "</WorkflowId>" +
" </Request>" +
" </Execute>" +
" </soap:Body>" +
"</soap:Envelope>" +
"";
var xmlHttpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
xmlHttpRequest.Open("POST", "/mscrmservices/2007/CrmService.asmx", false);
xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction","http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2007/WebServices/Execute");
xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
xmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Length", xml.length);
xmlHttpRequest.send(xml);
var resultXml = xmlHttpRequest.responseXML;
return(resultXml.xml);
}

// call the workflow
var theWorkflowId = "3FD2DD58-4708-43D7-A21B-F0F90A0AA9F2"; //change to your workflow Id
ExecuteWorkflow(crmForm.ObjectId, theWorkflowId);

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