Web Request

the application provides several options for using web services with s use the run web service quick action docid\ feocob4atbvx y sowf0 for soap web services use the web request quick action for rest api web services when you need to use simple authentication use the web request quick action for rest api web services with authorization headers the web request updates fields in your business objects using rest api graphical action designer web request quick action docid\ y26u7cthgahanadodezog you can only use a web request as a component of a composite action for help with composite actions , see adding multiple actions to a quick action docid 8v8djgxmtzirwn9bh nzc using the web request action feature the web request allows you to customize and define inputs to your web request the web request uses rest apis to communicate with web servers, making it a flexible data gathering tool the core difference between this and the run rest web service quick action docid\ hawbkribo wvgmuqwwoj7 is that the this uses authorization headers instead of basic authentication parameters update the settings of the web request using the parameters general settings method get gathers data from a resource on the server post sends data to the server to create or update a resource multiple post requests will result in compounded changes to the resource put sends data to the server to create or update a resource multiple put requests will result in the same response with every request patch applies partial modifications to a resource delete deletes the specified resource url the target of your web request body enter the payload you are sending with your web request for example, $('{"status" "' + status + '", "subject" "' + subject +'", "description" "' + symptom + '"}') header settings the header settings contain metadata in key value pairs that are sent along with http requests a request header is sent to the web server and contains information and instructions for the resource to respond to the request you can find useful information on using http headers at https //blog postman com/what are http headers/ https //blog postman com/what are http headers/ you can specify one or more header key value pairs in the header settings see example of header settings docid\ dbkjmt27xwklah73d9aro for typical examples of defining the header settings click header settings enter the required header key and header value pair click the + icon to add more pairs example of header settings in this example, we define the header settings to pass an api key to a web server typically, this may be used to obtain data from the server, the header value api key being passed to the server as authorization to obtain the data select general settings and set the web request action's method field to 'get', as we want to gather data from a resource on the server enter tenant url along with resource location in the url field for example, https //\<tenant url>/api/odata/businessobject/incidents('$(recid)') click header settings and enter "authorization" for the header key , and the api key for the header value click add header to add a second header key and value row enter "content type" for the header key , and application/json for the header value this indicates that the request body contains json data response settings ignore certificate errors check this box to have the web request ignore certificate errors (such as an expired certificate error) and continue processing the remaining steps in the action store response code as creates and populates a variable to store the response code for use in subsequent action steps store response body as creates and populates a variable to store the response body for in subsequent action steps store response headers as creates and populates a variable to store the response header for in subsequent action steps