> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.flowx.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Process status

Processes can be started by making an API call. Certain parameters needed by the process can be sent on the request body.

Some special cases for stating process instances are:

* starting a process instance from another instance and inhering some data from the first one to the second
* a process can have multiple start nodes, in which case, a start condition must be set when making the start process call

<ParamField path="PROCESS_INSTANCE_ID" type="string" required>
  The name of the process definition to instantiate.
</ParamField>

<ParamField path="ENGINE_URL" type="string" required>
  The URL of the engine.
</ParamField>


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