What You Will Learn!
- Learn how to use a web service integration to create a record type
- Configuring the record type's data source and record list view
- Create Appian design objects required to build the record type
- Understand how to use your own API to create a service-backed record type
Description
Your enterprise data may be spread across a number of different systems. If your data sources provide access with a REST API, you can bring all of your data together by creating a service-backed record type, which is a record type that uses a web service as its data source. This tutorial guides you through the steps for creating a service-backed record type that powers a fictional SpaceX Launch application that manages rocket launch data. We'll use the r/SpaceX API as the data source of our record type. To enable Appian's powerful data modeling features, we'll also enable data sync for the record type. Most APIs require applications to send authentication credentials with each request. The r/SpaceX API is a free, public, open-source API that doesn't require authentication. This makes it ideal for this tutorial because we don't need credentials in order to connect to it. Specifically, we will use the Launches resource of the r/SpaceX API that supports paging, searching, and filtering. After you complete this tutorial, you will understand how to use your own API to create a service-backed record type. The final configurations of your record type will change based on the field names and data types of your source.
Who Should Attend!
- Appian Developers
