Conclusion

Congratulations on using this Attachment Poller Guide to successfully poll your PDI for updates & attachments - passing relevant data between Parent & Child Pollers, deciding which Messages to use.

This Guide has shown us how we might configure a Parent and Child Poller integration - polling data from both the Table API and Attachment API of a Personal Developer Instance (PDI) (building on the previously configured Parent & Child Pollers). We polled for attachments in two stages - an initial on-demand poll, scanning for attachments added to bonded, updated records and a subsequent, on-demand poll, pulling back the attachments and processing that data with the relevant inbound Message. As such, we created the following records:

• Get Attachment Poll Processor

• Get Attachment Poller

• Select Attachments Poll Processor

• Select Attachments Poller

We also copied and edited the previously configured Child Poll Processor so that it kicked off our Select Attachments Poller (editing the Child Poller so that it ran the copied Poll Processor).

To facilitate the ability to poll both the Table API and Attachment API we truncated the Endpoint URL in the Connection and prepended the Endpoint URLs in the Poll Processors and the Outbound Message Paths with either /table/incident or /attachment (as appropriate).

In testing our integration, we created & updated incidents in both instances (polling for updates each time). We successfully proved that we were only querying bonded records, pulling back updates made in the remote instance since the last update time, only retrieving a select number of fields. For each returned record, more detailed child Poll Requests were triggered, along with poll requests scanning for & retrieving attachments, generating transactions for each updated ticket.

We also proved that we were able to store previously returned records in order to facilitate comparison & enable the decision as to which Message to use to process the data - successfully telling Unifi which Message to use.

By Using the Unifi integration platform, we have discovered that building and testing our integration is simpler and more efficient, saving both time and money. Our hope is that this Guide has been a valuable aid to you in that process.

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