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Does Appian 6 have an out of the box method of processing data submitted in a cu
eugenem
over 11 years ago
Does Appian 6 have an out of the box method of processing data submitted in a custom outlook form? I want to be able to initiate a task that is in the email message using the form data as input....
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Sathya Srinivasan
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago
I believe Eugene wants to submit a form and for Appian to consume the contents as if it's an Appian form and Map it into process variables - Is that correct? If so, the email interception mentioned by @tim will be your first step to start a process in Appian via Email. Once you're in Appian, you need a method to unmarshall the content. This can be tricky because you are going to get a block of text and need to parse the content to find the values. If you have a defined structure of the content (i.e. emails generated by system), then you can put a logic around it. Free form emails can be a bit tricky - so my suggestion would be to find out if the code can be formatted so you have a standardized structure and then apply a look-up on top of that to extract your key-value pairs.
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Sathya Srinivasan
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago
I believe Eugene wants to submit a form and for Appian to consume the contents as if it's an Appian form and Map it into process variables - Is that correct? If so, the email interception mentioned by @tim will be your first step to start a process in Appian via Email. Once you're in Appian, you need a method to unmarshall the content. This can be tricky because you are going to get a block of text and need to parse the content to find the values. If you have a defined structure of the content (i.e. emails generated by system), then you can put a logic around it. Free form emails can be a bit tricky - so my suggestion would be to find out if the code can be formatted so you have a standardized structure and then apply a look-up on top of that to extract your key-value pairs.
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