People Task

The People Task Appmixer module provides an API that lets you create tasks that can be approved or rejected by other people. This module is used by the appmixer.ui.PeopleTask UI SDK module in combination with the appmixer.utils.tasks.RequestApproval and appmixer.utils.tasks.RequestApprovalEmail components. Please see the People Tasks tutorial for more details.

Each task carries an email address of the requester and approver of the task together with title, description and due date. Tasks can have registered webhooks that the Appmixer engine calls when the status of the task changes (pending -> approved and pending -> rejected). Components can register these webhooks and trigger their outputs based on the result of the task resolution.

Get Tasks

GET https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/tasks

Return all tasks of a user.

Query Parameters

Name
Type
Description

secret

string

Approver or requester secret. This is the secret that you get in the approverSecret or requesterSecret property when you create a new task. This secret allows you to list tasks of any user for which you have the secret (instead of just the user identified by the token in the Authorization header).

limit

number

Maximum items returned. Default is 100. Useful for paging.

offset

number

The index of the first item returned. Default is 0. Useful for paging.

projection

string

Exclude task object properties. Example: "-description".

sort

string

Sorting parameter. Can be any task object property followed by semicolon and 1 (ascending), -1 (descending). Example: "decisionBy:-1".

filter

string

Filter tasks by their property values. Example: "status:pending" returns only pending tasks.

pattern

string

Filter tasks by a search term (searches the tasks title).

role

string

Filter tasks by role ("approver" or "requester").

 [{
    "approver": "approver@example.com",
    "decisionBy": "2020-01-01 19:00:00",
    "description": "Example description",
    "requester": "requester@example.com",
    "status": "pending",
    "title": "Example title",
    "id": "5da9ed9ff29cd51c5fa27380"
}, {
    "approver": "approver@example.com",
    "decisionBy": "2020-01-01 19:00:00",
    "description": "Example description",
    "requester": "requester@example.com",
    "status": "pending",
    "title": "Example title",
    "id": "5da9ed9ff29cd51c5fa27380"
}]

Get Task Count

GET https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/tasks-count

Get the number of all tasks of a user.

Query Parameters

Name
Type
Description

secret

string

Approver or requester secret. This is the secret that you get in the approverSecret or requesterSecret property when you create a new task. This secret allows you to list tasks of any user for which you have the secret (instead of just the user identified by the token in the Authorization header).

filter

string

Filter tasks by their property values. Example: "status:pending" returns only pending tasks.

pattern

string

Filter tasks by a search term (searches the tasks title).

role

string

Filter tasks by role ("approver" or "requester").

{
    "count": 23
}

Get Task

GET https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/tasks/:id

Get a task detail.

Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description

id

string

ID of a task.

{
    "approver": "approver@example.com",
    "decisionBy": "2020-01-01 19:00:00",
    "description": "Example description",
    "requester": "requester@example.com",
    "status": "pending",
    "title": "Example title",
    "id": "5da9ed9ff29cd51c5fa27380"
}

Create a New Task

POST https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/tasks

Request Body

Name
Type
Description

decisionBy

string

Date by which the task is due. ISO 8601 format.

status

string

Status of the task. One of "pending", "approved" or "rejected".

description

string

The description of the task.

title

string

The title of the task.

requester

string

Requester's email address.

approver

string

Approver's email address.

{
    "approver": "approver@example.com",
    "decisionBy": "2020-01-01 19:00:00",
    "description": "Example description",
    "requester": "requester@example.com",
    "status": "pending",
    "public": true,
    "title": "Example title",
    "approverSecret": "3dbd67d6db7a2c45b413ed7a0788175e764c4a7d11d44289bd2706e09ea4318f",
    "requesterSecret": "440197b197b9743b457172d37bcf98db3e006644657f9e19192efcc428125aae",
    "id": "5da9ed9ff29cd51c5fa27380"
}

Register a Webhook for a Task

POST https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/webhooks

Register a new webhook URL for a task. Appmixer will send a POST request to this URL whenever the status of the task changes. This is usually done right after creating a new task so that you can get notified as soon as the task gets approved or rejected.

Request Body

Name
Type
Description

url

string

URL to be triggered when the status of the task changes.

taskId

string

ID of a task.

{
    "url": "https://api.appmixer.com/flows/551945f2-6bbb-4ea4-a792-fb3635943372/components/a54b47fa-e7ce-463f-87bc-715ceb612947?correlationId=ee325876-4b3e-4537-9a12-58b4929f6cd8&correlationInPort=task",
    "taskId": "1234",
    "status": "pending",
    "id": "5da9ee4cf29cd51c5fa27381"
}

Delete a Webhook

GET https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/webhooks/:id

Delete a previously registered webhook.

Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description

id

string

Webhook ID, i.e. the id returned from the /people-task/webhooks when registering a new webhook.

Edit a Task

PUT https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/tasks/:id

Edit an existing task.

Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description

id

string

Id of a task.

Request Body

Name
Type
Description

decisionBy

string

Date by which the task is due. ISO 8601 format.

status

string

The status of the task. One of "pending", "approved" or "rejected".

description

string

The description of the task.

title

string

The title of the task.

requester

string

Requester's email address.

approver

string

Approver's email address.

{
    "approver": "approver@example.com",
    "decisionBy": "2020-01-01 19:00:00",
    "description": "Example description",
    "requester": "requester@example.com",
    "status": "pending",
    "title": "Example title",
    "id": "5da9ed9ff29cd51c5fa27380"
}

Approve a Task

PUT https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/tasks/:id/approve

This endpoint approves a task triggering all the registered webhooks for this task announcing a new approved status.

Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description

id

string

ID of a task.

Request Body

Name
Type
Description

secret

string

Approver secret. This is the secret that you get in the approverSecret property when you create a new task. This secret allows you to approve a task of any user for which you have the secret.

{
    "id": "5da9ed9ff29cd51c5fa27380",
    "approver": "e2etest@gmail.com",
    "decisionBy": "2020-01-01 19:00:00",
    "description": "Example description",
    "requester": "e2etest@gmail.com",
    "status": "approved",
    "title": "Example title"
}

Reject a Task

PUT https://api.appmixer.com/people-task/tasks/:id/reject

This endpoint rejects a task triggering all the registered webhooks for this task announcing a new rejected status.

Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description

id

string

ID of a task.

Request Body

Name
Type
Description

secret

string

Approver secret. This is the secret that you get in the approverSecret property when you create a new task. This secret allows you to reject a task of any user for which you have the secret.

{
    "id": "5da9ed9ff29cd51c5fa27380",
    "approver": "e2etest@gmail.com",
    "decisionBy": "2020-01-01 19:00:00",
    "description": "Example description",
    "requester": "e2etest@gmail.com",
    "status": "rejected",
    "title": "Example title"
}

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