Process initiation from SAIL without user intervention/input

Question

Hello Everyone, 
 
 I have a requirement where we need to initiate the process at backend to store user&rsquo;s login id, date time etc. as soon as he clicks on any of the report in REPORT tab. 
 In current scenario, we have already reports in place and we don&rsquo;t want any additional input from user. 
 
 I know following are few options provided by apian to initiate the process or save the data. 
 fn!startprocesswrite()/a!startProcess()/a!writeToDataStoreEntity() but all of these will execute within saveInto, which again required a user intervention. 
 The last option we left with the custom function plugin, but before going to this option I want another opinion from group members. 
 
 Thanks, 
 Ajay

miteshp · Answer

Hi Santosh, 
 
Any thoughts on the following approach. 
 
Expose the process model as a SOAP Service (" docs.appian.com/.../Publishing_Process_Models_as_Web_Services.html") and invoke it in SAIL using the "webservicequery" function. No need to write a custom plugin. 
 
Thanks, 
Mitesh

miteshp · Answer

Just an fyi. We are using this in our reports.