Google Application Integration: Execute Integration

You can configure and execute a Google Application Integration using the Execute Integration action.

Prerequisites

  • Create a GCP account (GCP Cloud) and create a GCloud project.
  • Login to your GCloud account at Google Cloud Project and create a project. If you already have access to a project, you will see your project here.
  • Create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID. A client ID is used to identify a single application to Google's OAuth Servers. For more details, see GCP Create access credentials.

Use the Execute action to execute an integration in an Google Application Integration instance from Automation 360.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Control Room.
  2. Create a new bot. For more details, See Create your first bot.
  3. From the Actions pane, select Google Application Integration > Execute integration and place it under the Start of the bot flow.
  4. Click Discover integrations to configure. Step 1/4: Connect to Google Application Integration appears. In the Authentication Type drop down, select the authentication method. For more details, see Google Application Integration: Connect.
    • User Account: Use this connection method by providing the GCloud account credentials.
    • Service Account: Use this connection method by providing the GCloud service account key. You need to add the service account key in the following JSON format. It is recommended to store the entire JSON snippet in the credential vault and pick the saved credential during connection.
      {
   "type":"service_account",
   "project_id":"your_project_id",
   "private_key_id":"your_private_key_id",
   "private_key":"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\\your_private_key-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
   "client_email":"your_client_email",
   "client_id":"your_client_id",
   "auth_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
   "token_uri":"https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
   "auth_provider_x509_cert_url":"https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
   "client_x509_cert_url":"your_client_certificate_url"
}
    • Control room OAuth connection: Use this connection method by creating an OAuth connection and storing it in the Control Room.
  5. Click Connect.
    If the credentials are correct, it gets connected to GCloud and the Step 2/4: Load Integration screen appears.
  6. Select the following in the Step 2/4: Load Integration screen.
    1. Click the Project ID drop-down and select the project ID from where you want to load the integration.
    2. Click the Location drop-down and select the location from where you want to load the integration.
      Google Application Integration Load integration: Step2/4
  7. Click Next.
    Step 3/4: Select an Integration screen appears with all the available integrations.
  8. Select an integration from the list.
    Google Application Integration Select Integration: Step3/4
  9. Click Next.
    Step 4/4: Configure my Integration screen appears with all the configuration options.
  10. In the Step 4/4: Configure my Integration screen, click the API Trigger drop-down and select the trigger you want to invoke.
    Google Application Integration Configure integration: Step4/4
    The input parameters are the parameters retrieved from Google Application Integration.
  11. Click Done.
    All the selected options are displayed as parameters in the Google Application Integration: Execute integration action.
  12. Click Add new input parameter to manually add the input parameters. You can provide the parameter value for different parameter types as specified in the following table:
    Parameter type Parameter value Example
    String Specify a string value stored as a variable. $str_INString$
    Integer Specify a number. 9
    Double Specify a decimal number. 20.5
    JSON Specify a JSON string. $str_JSONString$
    String Array Specify string values in an array. [a,b,c]
    Integer Array Specify integers in an array. [11,22,334]
    Double Array Specify integers and decimal numbers in an array. [23.5,27,44.5]
    Boolean Specify boolean value as True or False. True
    Boolean Array Specify boolean values as an array. [true,false]
    - - (Manual entry) Specify any value from the above formats.
  13. We recommend that you click Validate my settings to validate all the parameters you have provided. If the values are incorrect, you will see the details in the Integration Validation window.
    Google Application Integration Execute Integration
  14. Enter Default as the session name.
  15. You can store the execution ID to a variable to verify in Google Application Integration. For example: ExecutionId.
  16. To verify the response from the Google Application Integration, you can store the response to a variable. For example: Execution.
    Google Application Integration Execute Integration