Hi all, I have a requirement to call process model exposed as a webse

rahulk828 over 11 years ago

Hi all,

I have a requirement to call process model exposed as a webservice, which contains four parameter to start the process. While calling this process model as webservice from another process model. I am not sure how to pass variable to the Webservice smart services.

from the link "forum.appian.com/.../Call_Web_Service_Smart_Service" I have understand to pass the data and receive it when the WebService is external. But when we have exposed the process model as webservice then how to pass the data to the process model from webservice... its not explained over there.

I know that i can use subprocess for the same but i want to check this with webService smart service.
I have checked this link "forum.appian.com/.../ over the forum. But not of much help to me.

thanks,
-Rahul Kataria...

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0 Shaun Kilby
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago

This doesn't necessarily answer your question, but could you use messaging to handle your requirement? Especially if it's process to process.
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0 Christine
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago

Rahul - Can you provide some details about your use case? The best way to call another process model is using a subprocess call. You can then determine if you want your flow to wait for completion or just keep moving on. For un related processes that you don't need to share data on in reports, you can send process to process messaging. Thanks
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0 rahulk828 over 11 years ago

Thanks Shaun and Christine for the reply. Actually we have a requirement to do some background work(Data inseration for maintaining performance data) and our current process does not want to wait for the same and we have to call this service from multiple places and even if required from outside of appain..so we have exposed that process as webservice, but i am not able to see the details regarding passing data to the webservice in "Call_Web_service_smart_service" when service exposed is process model.
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0 akhilan over 11 years ago

If you do not want your process to wait for this data insertion activity, then you do the activity in a subprocess and call that asynchronously from your main process. This way your main process will not have to wait for data insertion to finish.
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