Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

RE: Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

Josh — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:10:39 GMT

Right, you can use Web API's to consume requests from external systems and initiate Appian processes.

RE: Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

ravinoors0001 — Tue, 09 May 2017 14:57:06 GMT

In my situation, we are not launching the external system from Appian but its other way round, we want Appian process to be initiated from external system. So the request is actually coming from external system.

RE: Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

Josh — Mon, 08 May 2017 23:33:55 GMT

This page talks about Web API's and gives an example: docs.appian.com/.../Web_APIs.html

RE: Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

ravinoors0001 — Mon, 08 May 2017 21:28:17 GMT

Thank you Bene. Your solution sounds promising but i need to capture the current url along with parameters somewhere on the form load.

RE: Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

ravinoors0001 — Mon, 08 May 2017 21:27:07 GMT

If i trigger an Appian Action from external system and would like to pass some data fields from that external system, can you give me any sample Web API example i can work off of. I don't want to embed Appian task within external system but only Appian Action, just to trigger the process.

RE: Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

Josh — Thu, 04 May 2017 20:56:09 GMT

Are you talking about passing data from an external source into Appian and have that data populate in a form? If so, I recommend looking into Web API's to capture the data you want to pass, and then including logic to push that data to an active task or to spawn a new task.

RE: Has anyone parsed Appian URL with parameters?

Ben Edwards — Thu, 04 May 2017 20:38:09 GMT

You can use the split() function within Appian to parse a string like you are asking: docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_split.html

For example:
split("https://<Company>.appiancloud.com/suite/tempo/actions/item/ProcessID?Param1=1234","?")
should return { "https://<Company>.appiancloud.com/suite/tempo/actions/item/ProcessID","Param1=1234" }

Then you could split the second string in that list to get what you're looking for.

Not sure if that will help you in terms of being update to update via a form but it sounds like what you might be looking for.