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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.appian.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Hi All,  We have a requirement to fetch data from external systems by</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/2493/hi-all-we-have-a-requirement-to-fetch-data-from-external-systems-by</link><description>Hi All, We have a requirement to fetch data from external systems by making some API calls for one of the customer. They have Oracle packages which we have to call from Appian. One sample is as below: Role_id := asdata.sec_api.get_role_id@asrtw(CpaddRec</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Hi All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a requirement to fetch data from external systems by</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/8851?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 07:20:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:694a8adf-5d99-4ac6-a88a-c6b36a648c98</guid><dc:creator>anagha_abhyankar</dc:creator><description>Thanks, this worked out.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hi All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a requirement to fetch data from external systems by</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/8729?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:56:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:661d4d12-aa7d-457a-88cf-1de03fd1ba4a</guid><dc:creator>anagha_abhyankar</dc:creator><description>Thanks Tim, will check if this works for us and will update here.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Hi All,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a requirement to fetch data from external systems by</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/8728?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:59:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b5c5e9c5-969c-4cda-ad35-f4b6fadd17d0</guid><dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator><description>Looking at the syntax these are Functions within an Oracle package. Functions can be run from a SQL query node against the dual table: select packageName.functionName(inputVar) as qResult from dual&lt;br /&gt;You can then pickup ac!qResult on the output tab&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>