We have a webAPI call to return a list of records to an external system. From t

gpolk over 8 years ago

We have a webAPI call to return a list of records to an external system. From that we have a requirement to make another webAPI call passing in the unique identifier for any given record in the previous list and return the names of any related actions for that record that are currently available based on the visibility expressions for the related actions. Anyone know how we can get that list of related actions? Thanks in advance.

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0 gpolk over 8 years ago

Using the sample Case Management App as an example, if I passed in the unique identifier of a product record I would want to get Update Product, Restock Product, and Delete Product in return as those are the related actions that are available.
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0 Jim Schweitzer
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over 8 years ago

Can you do it manually? Create some sort of state field in your record data, and maintain a mapping of which actions are available for each state? You could even do that mapping in the external system
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0 gpolk over 8 years ago

Keeping that kind of mapping defeats the purpose, plus in addition to the state/actions mapping we would also need to manage security through that mapping as well. This is not the road we want to go down.
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0 PhilB
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over 8 years ago

The short answer to this is "No". That said, Jim's suggestion has merit; what about moving the visibility rules for the related actions to the database? It could be rather complicated but, if they're only based on something like a status, you could query by status and type and return the name of the related action, for example? You could also use the same rules for the visibility expressions, thereby only storing that logic in one place.
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