Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:31:20 GMT

This does not solve the underlying problem and the same restriction apply.

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

ahmadb803565 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 06:27:51 GMT

Another suggestion is it possible to invoke the start process from a rule expression. If this is indeed possible, could you provide an example of how to handle success and error events within the rule expression?

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:58:12 GMT

While this is possible, you risk that this call is triggered multiple times.

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

David Jimenez — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:23:23 GMT

Did you try exposing a web api from appian that uses startProcess, and consuming that web api from an integration invoked in your interface?

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:01:17 GMT

No, to start a process you need an initial user interaction like a button click.

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

ahmadb803565 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:36:36 GMT

Sure, that sounds good for now. But if we need to start a process model that call all of those integrations call to fetch data into the interface, can we start that with a local variable?

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:32:16 GMT

This is not how interfaces work in Appian. I suggest to go through one of the interface building tutorials.

In the end, you define a local variable and call the integration to populate it.

Here some examples on how to call integrations: https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.4/Call_an_Integration.html

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

ahmadb803565 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:27:02 GMT

So where to call this expression inside the interface??, is there a page_load event within the interface itself??

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:24:07 GMT

An integration that just queries data can be called like any other expression.

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

ahmadb803565 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:22:09 GMT

How to call the API when the user clicks on their task and the interface is loaded??

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

David Jimenez — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:56:45 GMT

Why don't you use the marketplace log reading plugin and read that information from Appian logs? That information is stored in the record usage log, as Stefan Helzle said.

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:05:50 GMT

Well, loading data to present it to the user is the normal thing. Just call that API and store the result in a local variable.

Do you see any obstacles when implementing this?

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

ahmadb803565 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:30:02 GMT

I have a similar situation where I want to load data automatically when the user opens the human task on the interface page load, let's say. This way, the data will be updated and accurate from external APIs. The reason for this is that the data changes frequently, and the user needs to see the most current information without having to refresh it manually. So how we can achieve this??

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:50:24 GMT

When following the Appian idea of records and processes, you can find this information in the records usage log

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/23.2/Logging.html#records-usage

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

abduss0004 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:39:06 GMT

There are 3 or 4 Interfaces in my application where I want to record who have accessed those Interfaces .
So , we want to store the details of user who visited that interface in one table.
How can we achieve this ?

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:35:45 GMT

Would you like to share what you want to achieve?

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

abduss0004 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:31:53 GMT

even on calling WEB APIs ? I saw in one of the suggestion that we can do through APIs but that information was also incomplete .

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:27:35 GMT

You cannot modify data in the database on interface load.

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

abduss0004 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:25:18 GMT

didn't get you on this .

RE: Calling APIs created in Appian on the load of Interface

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:12:38 GMT

In Appian, on a UI, any data modification can only be the direct result of a user interaction. While there are some hacks to work around this, I strongly suggest to stay with this design paradigm.

docs.appian.com/.../functions-side-effects.html