Getting forbidden error while accessing process model from site

Hi santoshd378 What exactly your requirement is? I mean why do you want to start a process from an interface which is used inside a Report?

However, as per your statement, you are saying that, a!startProcess() function causing you the issue, so in such case, you can do following:

Create a WEB-API which starts your Process, now call this API using Integration Object (Newly introduced in Appian 17.2 v, or use httpQuery() or httpWrite() depends on type of method of API i.e. GET or POST, if working with earlier version i.e. till 17.1)

Now try calling this Integration rule or your rule through the interface instead of a!startProcess()

So, if a!startProcess() is really the root cause, then this procedure should work out for you.


Hope this will help you.

Hi santoshd378 What exactly your requirement is? I mean why do you want to start a process from an interface which is used inside a Report?

However, as per your statement, you are saying that, a!startProcess() function causing you the issue, so in such case, you can do following:

Create a WEB-API which starts your Process, now call this API using Integration Object (Newly introduced in Appian 17.2 v, or use httpQuery() or httpWrite() depends on type of method of API i.e. GET or POST, if working with earlier version i.e. till 17.1)

Now try calling this Integration rule or your rule through the interface instead of a!startProcess()

So, if a!startProcess() is really the root cause, then this procedure should work out for you.


Hope this will help you.

Hi Alok,

I created the Web Api and the status code was 200. But while using the url in integration object getting the following error

This request requires authentication which is not supported by Appian
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

Yes you need to use Basic Authentication under the Authentication dropdown, instead of using it as None, where you need to provide your Third Party credential username and password, which will be nothing but your userid and password

Hi santoshd378 if you go for publishing a process as a Service and using them, you wouldn't expect anything other than the Process ID to be returned as the response, whereas Web-API can return the complete response.

However, glad to hear that, your approach worked.