Hi, I have seen one issue constantly coming up whenever I’ve to build a custom action.
Scenario: I am building a custom action which creates an order but the order has to be created against a customer therefor, it requires customer_id in the request body. Customer ID is a readonly field and resides inside the app X.
But if we trigger data from app Y into app X to create an order it won’t work since it requires customer_id.
Is there a way to handle this scenario? In the past I’ave made use of Look-Up table but that workaround doesn’t work most of the times?
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Action dependent on an ID
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Can you not use one of these actions before creating the order?
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Hello - What app are you using?
The most common workaround for the workflow you are describing however, is to first look for the customer and sending their ID along with the request to create the order
Would this be possible?
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Hey
How can we look for the customer and send their ID along? Can you please elaborate?
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Can you not use one of these actions before creating the order?
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