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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>How to call a process from a GET Web API  ?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/integrations/22986/how-to-call-a-process-from-a-get-web-api</link><description>Hi All, 
 I am creating Document Download WebAPI which will be called by external system to download Appian Document . I want to capture few parameters such as data, time , document , user whenever the document is downloaded (for an audit purpose) .I</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: How to call a process from a GET Web API  ?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/89115?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:41:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:3797619e-577b-4d07-9850-55c39679e5f8</guid><dc:creator>Richard Michaelis</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;stefan is absolutly right here regarding &amp;quot;GET&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.4/Web_APIs.html"&gt;https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/21.4/Designing_Web_APIs.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Only Web APIs for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"&gt;POST&lt;/code&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"&gt;PUT&lt;/code&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"&gt;DELETE&lt;/code&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"&gt;PATCH&lt;/code&gt;&amp;nbsp;methods may execute smart services. Web APIs for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"&gt;GET&lt;/code&gt;&amp;nbsp;method will not execute any smart services included in their expression. Attempting to do so will result in the following error message:&amp;nbsp;&lt;code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"&gt;Smart Services cannot be executed in Web APIs that have a method of &amp;quot;GET.&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to call a process from a GET Web API  ?</title><link>https://community.appian.com/thread/89106?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:29:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:357c9c03-d9ef-49eb-b584-3426cadcc655</guid><dc:creator>Stefan Helzle</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;A GET API cannot modify data in Appian.Why does that have to be a GET?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>