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Using webhooks to start a process in Process Services

zayed — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:05:29 GMT

I was wondering if there is a way of using a webhook to start a process in Process Services from an external app/system? I have a very simple process that starts, sends an email to alert me that it has started, and then ends. What I was hoping to achieve was the ability to start this process from an

Re: Using webhooks to start a process in Process Services

benro — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:25:08 GMT

Hi Zayed,

It is possible to invoke an APS process via REST API from an external webhook. I have an example of an APS process being invoked from a Jira webhook. Sample code here :GitHub - benro/DEVCON2018: Alfresco Devcon 2018 - APS+Serverless+Webhooks Sample using Jira and AWS Lambda

And a deep dive here: Alfresco DevCon 2018: APS + Serverless + Webhooks - YouTube

Hope this helps.

Ben

Re: Using webhooks to start a process in Process Services

mdtabrezmca — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 04:21:03 GMT

I think you can achieve this by using Alfresco proces services public rest apis.

Start Process Instance | Alfresco Documentation (Start process instance from your api).
Using the REST API Explorer | Alfresco Documentation(List of public apis in swaggere).

for your solution what you can call

http://{yourdomain)/activiti-app/api/enterprise/process-instances

this api will start the process instance. you may need to pass the variables required by the start form if configured. This APIs Reponse will give you Process instance id.using this process instance id you can invoke next task of the process.

http://{yourdomain)/activiti-app/api/enterprise/tasks/query

Where this task can be again REST task which can trigger your custom API. I hope i this way it will help you.

Re: Using webhooks to start a process in Process Services

haldinger — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 00:55:31 GMT

I think APA is the answer here going forward.

https://docs.alfresco.com/process-automation/latest/model/triggers/#webhooks