Can we start and stop workflows using http request from postman?

[Akhil_Pathak]

Hi Allan ,
I want to start /stop my workflow using a post request from the postman . Can you guide me how can I achieve that . Iam very new to this .

Thanks
Akhil

[Allan_Zimmermann]

Well … kind of …
to run a workflow you have a ton of options

Call Rest API differents solution and the best practice

You can do RPA with purely OpenRPA You can do RPA with purely OpenFlow and agents You can do RPA with both OpenRPA and OpenFlow. You can call REST api’s from OpenRPA ( many ways, but i like to use powershell and invoke-rest ) You can call REST api’s from “openflow” using NodeRED and HTTP node You can call REST api’s from “openflow” using agents depending on the programmering lanaguge you wrote the package in … ( c#/ python/ nodejs )

but to stop it, not much, if any at all.
you can run a workflow with the option to kill the workflow if it’s already running, but if you intent is to stop the workflow no matter what you have 2 options

1. you could add a “stop” argument to your workflow, and if that is set “do nothing”. Then when you need to kill it, invoke the workflow with this argument set to true, and with kill if running set to true
2. if you want to kill all running workflows, you can create an empty workflow and then invoke it, with “kill all running” enabled. this will only work if you enable “kill all” in the settings.json file on the robot.