Stibo STEP: What is the javascript to initiate a node/item in workflow. Don't want to use default wizard screen as I want to just initiate children of the node and not the node itself.
You can initiate a node into a workflow thus (and it's always wise to check if it's already in there first):
var wfID = "ID.of.workflow";
if (!node.isInWorkflow(wfID)) {
node.startWorkflowByID(wfID, "Put workflow comment here");
}