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return response back from process model

Abhay Giri

HI All,

 

here is the requirement:

 

we need to create a REST service which receives some input parameters and based on input parameters response need to return. But, here response is given by a user not any rule or query entity. This service will be used from external source. So whenever external source will hit the service it will expect some response.

 

I created a process model for this and assigned task to user for the response. In the web api i started this process model by using a!startprocess . web api only initiate the process model but not wait for completion as its(a!startprocess) property but i need response back from user .

How can i do this? any suggestion would be appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Regards

Abhay  

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    Hi Abhay,
    You need to have 2 REST services in this scenario , one which will create a task for the user and other will take the user response and submit to the external system.

    Thanks
    Manish
  • 0 in reply to manishk0001
    Thanks for reply manish,

    but how second service will reply to external system because we can only invoke the appian service when user/external system will submit the input after that session will expire . Then after that how you can send the response without any request. please make me wrong if i am saying anything wrong.
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     in reply to Abhay Giri
    Hi Abhay ,

    Your main Idea is to capture a user response , So when you create a task for user , you need to add some identifier in appian which will be passes down to other system , for example . If Some external service wants the user to submit his details , So when you create the job for user , you have to make the user ID as identifier and when user submit the request from Appian , the same will be passed to the external system which will identify the response for which request Id.

    I am not sure the same suits you becoz you mentioned for session , if you think that user will respond in the same session than I do not think its possible . But with the 2 service approach it is quite possible .
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     in reply to Abhay Giri
    Hi Abhay ,

    Your main Idea is to capture a user response , So when you create a task for user , you need to add some identifier in appian which will be passes down to other system , for example . If Some external service wants the user to submit his details , So when you create the job for user , you have to make the user ID as identifier and when user submit the request from Appian , the same will be passed to the external system which will identify the response for which request Id.

    I am not sure the same suits you becoz you mentioned for session , if you think that user will respond in the same session than I do not think its possible . But with the 2 service approach it is quite possible .
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