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Invoke a URL through a workflow

arsh6013
6 - Meteoroid

Hi All,

 

I am trying to accomplish a task of invoking a URL after the workflow has finished all the other processing. Although this might be fairly simple I cannot seem to find a solution.

 

This URL in my case in an API call which does certain ETL tasks in the background.

 

Any help here is highly appreciated.

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Blake
12 - Quasar

Hey @arsh6013 you'll want to use the download tool for this. 

 

https://help.alteryx.com/current/Download.htm

 

 

jarrod
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

@Blake 's recommendation works for processing in-stream, but if you need to wait until everything is done, then you can try setting the event to run another workflow from command line (or chained app for that matter) that has a download tool included.

arsh6013
6 - Meteoroid

@Blake @jarrod Thanks you for your responses.

 

I used a block until done tool. First one writes to a database. 

 

The second one uses the download tool to invoke the URL for the API. 

The API call is simple. It take the data from the first first write mentioned above and copies it to a seperate database. 

 

I checked the logs and process is happening in the sequence as desired.Do you guys see any flaw in this logic?

jarrod
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

that should be fine as long as there aren't any other outputs throughout the workflow that could possibly output after the API. Good solution!

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