This project contains activities for accessing an organization's data via the Quickbase REST API. Click here for more information on the resources and requests available via the Quickbase REST API.

Requirements

These activities are designed to work with VertiGIS Studio Workflow versions 5.41.0 and above.

Usage

To use these activities in VertiGIS Studio Workflow Designer you need to register an activity pack and then add the activities to a workflow.

Register the Quickbase activity pack

1. Sign in to ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS
2. Go to My Content
3. Select Add Item > An application
   • Type: Web Mapping
   • Purpose: Ready To Use
   • API: JavaScript
   • URL: The URL to this activity pack manifest
     • Use https://unpkg.com/@vertigis/workflow-activities-quickbase/activitypack.json for the latest version
     • Use https://unpkg.com/@vertigis/workflow-activities-quickbase@1.0.0/activitypack.json for a specific version
     • Use https://localhost:5000/activitypack.json for a local development version
   • Title: Your desired title
   • Tags: Must include geocortex-workflow-activity-pack
4. Reload VertiGIS Studio Workflow Designer
5. These activities will now appear in the activity toolbox in a Quickbase category

Use the Quickbase activities in a workflow

1. Authenticate with the Quickbase service The Quickbase activity pack is intended to be used exclusively by VertiGIS Studio Web applications embedded in a browser window within Quickbase, and a secure postMessage communication channel is established with Quickbase using postMessage. Once the communication is established, the Workflow will request tokens using the identity of the user logged into Quickbase.
   1. Add the Create Quickbase Service activity to a workflow
   2. Set the Quickbase URL input to the root URL the Quickbase service. For example, https://api.quickbase.com/v1.
   3. Set the Host Name to your Quickbase domain.
   4. Set the Target Origin to the origin hosting the Quickbase application.
2. Use the Quickbase service
   1. Add one of the other Quickbase activities to the workflow. For example, Get Table.
   2. Set the Service input of the activity to be the output of the Create App Service activity
      • Typically this would use an expression like =$service1.result
   3. Supply any additional inputs to the activity
   4. Supply the result output of the activity to the inputs of other activities in the workflow
3. Run the workflow

Development

This project was bootstrapped with the VertiGIS Studio Workflow SDK. Before you can use your activity pack in the VertiGIS Studio Workflow Designer, you will need to register the activity pack.

Available Scripts

Inside the newly created project, you can run some built-in commands:

npm run generate

Interactively generate a new activity or form element.

npm start

Runs the project in development mode. Your activity pack will be available at http://localhost:5000/main.js. The HTTPS certificate of the development server is a self-signed certificate that web browsers will warn about. To work around this open https://localhost:5000/main.js in a web browser and allow the invalid certificate as an exception. For creating a locally-trusted HTTPS certificate see the Configuring a HTTPS Certificate section on the VertiGIS Studio Developer Center.

npm run build

Builds the activity pack for production to the build folder. It optimizes the build for the best performance.

Your custom activity pack is now ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment in the VertiGIS Studio Developer Center for more information.

Documentation

Find further documentation on the SDK on the VertiGIS Studio Developer Center