Enumerating and Starting SP-2013 Designer Workflows Programmatically

Hello,
I'm currently working with Office-365 Site-collections. I have a requirement of developing a
Sandbox Solution for Enumerating and Starting
all Designer Workflows Associated to a Given List. The list contains workflows of both SP-2010 and SP-2013 templates. They have to be started programmatically on select Items on a Button Click event.
I have tried using the property - SPList.WorkflowAssociations,
but the collection of WorkflowAssociations returned by this property consists of SP-2010 workflows only. The ones of SP-2013 are not listed.
I went through online blogs that suggested to use the APIs of 'Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServicesBase.dll' (WorkflowServicesManager,
WorkflowSubscriptionService, etc..), in order to enumerate SP-2013 Workflows as well.
I'm not able to find the Api-package that installs the dll to GAC. Morever, I'm not sure if the APIs from this DLL can be used
in Sandbox Solutions. (I have installed SP-2013 SDK as well as
Workflow Manager package, but the above DLL is not found anywhere in my Dev-box).
It would be helpful if I get appropriate guidance on which APIs to use in Sandbox Solution for the above requirement.
Thanks
Abhijith R Shastry

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to start workflow using Sandbox solution.
It is not supported to use the “Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServicesBase.dll” API in sandbox solution(office 365/SharePoint online).
Also, it is not a good recommend to use the sandbox solution in SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint online.
As a workaround, we can use the Client Object Model to achieve the same scenario.
http://www.vrdmn.com/2014/05/managing-sharepoint-2013-workflows-with.html
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/607127/Using-SharePoint-Workflow-Services-JS-API
What’s more, you also use the SharePoint APP to achieve it.
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/87015/solved-start-a-workflow-of-the-host-web-via-sharepoint-app-and-jsom
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
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