How to start SQL to Excel plugin with the function a!startProcessLink?

This is all a bit too vague for me to know how to approach an answer - can you tell us more about your use case, the user experience you're going for, what you already have in place (particularly as far as what the user would currently see, and how/where they'd be seeing it in your appian setup)?

Usually, for example, I would not be considering "start process link" whatsoever for this - i'd have a form (i.e. a mostly read-only interface appearing somewhere on my site), where the user can select some desired parameters / filters / etc, then they press a "generate" button, which calls the process model by a!startProcess(), which runs automatically and generates the output dictated by what they had entered at the time of the "generate" click, and when completed, it passes the generated document ID back into the interface which I then show in a document download link in a Rich Text field.

This is all a bit too vague for me to know how to approach an answer - can you tell us more about your use case, the user experience you're going for, what you already have in place (particularly as far as what the user would currently see, and how/where they'd be seeing it in your appian setup)?

Usually, for example, I would not be considering "start process link" whatsoever for this - i'd have a form (i.e. a mostly read-only interface appearing somewhere on my site), where the user can select some desired parameters / filters / etc, then they press a "generate" button, which calls the process model by a!startProcess(), which runs automatically and generates the output dictated by what they had entered at the time of the "generate" click, and when completed, it passes the generated document ID back into the interface which I then show in a document download link in a Rich Text field.

Yes, that's it . Actually I have an Interface that show a ReadOnlyGrid with dropdown and text field as filters. I want put this Process Model in a button and apply the filters, but i don't have the knowledge for do that.

Luckily it's not too difficult to do this - for a basic implementation you can merely pass the filters into the process model (which you'd have to configure in such a way that it handles them correctly, which in your case probably means integrating them into your SQL statement in whatever way is necessary).  Your "generate" button would simply call a!startProcess() and you'd pass in the filters as parameters, and capture the document ID of the generated document in the onSuccess saveInto.

Thank you so much! I was able to create the export button with the filters in the SQL field of the plugin. I have another question, it currently overwrites the same Excel template, but how can I generate a dynamic template so that it doesn't conflict when two people press the export button at the same time?

My version of the plugin allows you to separately configure a base template, a newly created document and a document to overwrite.

Thanks a lot for the help!

José Manuel Ojeda said:

it currently overwrites the same Excel template

Are you actually using Export SQL to Excel from Excel Tools?  I've never seen that, at least when the base template is configured properly.  This is a known issue (or "feature" according to Appian, i guess(?!?)) of the Export DSE to Excel out-of-box smart service, but that's a completely separate item.