Hello appians, Does anyone knows what web service can be used to start a pr

You can expose your process model as a web service. Then you can use it in SOAP UI and call it. You can also pass parameters to it. When you call the web service, the process model will start. In the output, you will get the processId of the process started. Check this link: forum.appian.com/.../Publishing_Process_Models_as_Web_Services.html

Hi Georgec,
Refer the links below :
forum.appian.com/.../Publishing_Process_Models_as_Web_Services.html
forum.appian.com/.../e-142328
Hope it helps.

Hy guys,
That is a good starting point. I tested using SOAPUI and it works great. Two questions:
1. How can I pass parameters in the SOAPUI?
2. Can I use custom data types, because it shows me that I can't. Is there any workaround? Thanks for the help, highly appreciated.

Hi Georgec,
1. The input parameters that you had given for the process model also appears in the SOAP UI as parameters, where you can pass their values.
2. No you cannot use custom data types as input parameters for the process model which is published as web-service.
One alternative is: you can take a single parameter of type text for your process model and while passing values from soap ui, you can pass multiple values(of say your CDT) delimited by ',' . And you can just split this comma separated string in to individual values in your process model and then map those values to the different fields of your CDT in process model.

As a work around for the cdt inputs, create a single input of type text, then pass in XML into the text string, use torecord within your process to map this back to a CDT. Just watch out for special characters in the XML and make sure they are escaped correctly.

Thanks a lot. This was really helpful I already tested and it work's great.
Highly appreciated!