We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

RE: We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

Nadia Farooq — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 23:14:56 GMT

RE: We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

Sanchita Gupta — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 23:13:03 GMT

Nadia Farooq - This post is very old so that link is outdated. For the latest tutorial on records please refer to this link to Appian's documentation - https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/latest/Records_Tutorial.html

RE: We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

Nadia Farooq — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:57:50 GMT

when i click on the link above, i get a 404 page not found error. Can you please resend the link?

RE: We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

JEAN PIERRE — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:02:47 GMT

Thank you.

RE: We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

shelzle — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:53:09 GMT

I think that the Appian documentation is a good point to start with. See

forum.appian.com/.../Records_Tutorial

There is an example on who to access external data. I would prefer to use the JSON format as the XML parser in Appian does have trouble with some quite common things like namespaces and external XSDs.

That allows you to show data. Add some processes as related actions to modify it.

There are plugins to do HTTP requests as well as JSON processing. These two help you to parse the data when reading and to build the data structures when writing back.

RE: We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

JEAN PIERRE — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:12:44 GMT

Our team hast only 10 days experience with Appian.
How do we configure this? With service-backed records?
If true, how do the rule looks like?

RE: We need to integrate with a system that exposes business entities by an OData co

shelzle — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:18:26 GMT

OData should be accessible as a REST based webservice. So you have some URL that point to the objects and return that as XML or JSON. Both can be parsed with Appina OOTB or plugins.

I did that to access lists and data in SharePoint.