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Question

Hi Team, 
 We have requirement where we are exposing an Appian Process as a webapi. This Process has one user input task which are required to be attended by certain set of stakeholders. The stakeholder information comes from the API as a payload. These Stakeholders can be Groups or Users. Is there a function to convert user and group text to Appian Users/Groups? There is no order in which we will get users/groups i.e. the payload can define comma separated Group/User names. Also, there can be a scenario where we have only a Group/ a user defined.

Vinay Kumar Rai · Accepted Answer

Hi, 
 Create an expression rule which as one parameter (TEXT), 
 pass all the UsergroupName on the rule, 
 use Split function 
 local!AllUserorGroup: split(ri!Input,",") 
 you get the array on the variable local!AllUserorGroup 
 use apply function 
 pass all the array one by one 
 create another rule called : Get_UserOrGroup(<Text>) 
 apply( 
 rule!Get_UserOrGroup, 
 local!AllUserorGroup 
 ) 
 Expression for the rule Get_UserOrGroup is mention below 
 /*Rule Get_UserOrGroup 
 Input: UserOrGroup, Type- Text
*/

=with(
 
 if(
 IsUsernameTaken(
 ri!UserOrGroup
 ),
 touser(ri!UserOrGroup),
 
 getgroupbyname(
 ri!UserOrGroup
 ) 
 
 )
 
)