Server Action
How to write custom server side actions that can be triggered by a API-client or a generic button
⚠️ Server actions require version 8.0.0 or newer of app-libs
If you want to define a generic button version 4.0.0 or newer of app-frontend is required.
Overview
Server actions is a way to write custom backend code that end users can trigger either by pressing a button or making an api request.
They are almost identical to process actions, the only difference is that they do not automatically change the process state when triggered.
A server action is tied to one or more process tasks and needs explisit autorization rules to grant end users execution rights.
Create and configure server action
Configure available server action for a process task
To register what server acitons are available for a process task we need to add it to the tasks config in the process.bpmn file
Example of a process task with a server action called myServerAction
<!-- Beginning of process definition omitted for brevity -->
<bpmn:task id="Task_1" name="Utfylling">
<bpmn:incoming>SequenceFlow_1</bpmn:incoming>
<bpmn:outgoing>SequenceFlow_2</bpmn:outgoing>
<bpmn:extensionElements>
<altinn:taskExtension>
<altinn:taskType>data</altinn:taskType>
<altinn:actions>
<altinn:action type="serverAction">myServerAction</altinn:action>
</altinn:actions>
</altinn:taskExtension>
</bpmn:extensionElements>
</bpmn:task>
<!-- End of process definition omitted for brevity -->
Add access policy
To allow users to trigger the server action we need to add authorization policies to the policy.xml file.
Example of access policy rule granting users with DAGL role access to trigger the server action myServerAction when the process is in Task_1
<!-- Beginning of policy.xml definition omitted for brevity -->
<xacml:Rule RuleId="urn:altinn:example:ruleid:2" Effect="Permit">
<xacml:Description>Rule that defines that user with role DAGL can execute myServerAction for
[ORG]/[APP] when it is in Task_1
</xacml:Description>
<xacml:Target>
<xacml:AnyOf>
<xacml:AllOf>
<xacml:Match MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:function:string-equal-ignore-case">
<xacml:AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">DAGL</xacml:AttributeValue>
<xacml:AttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:altinn:rolecode"
Category="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject-category:access-subject"
DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
MustBePresent="false"/>
</xacml:Match>
</xacml:AllOf>
</xacml:AnyOf>
<xacml:AnyOf>
<xacml:AllOf>
<xacml:Match MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal">
<xacml:AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">[ORG]</xacml:AttributeValue>
<xacml:AttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:altinn:org"
Category="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:resource"
DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
MustBePresent="false"/>
</xacml:Match>
<xacml:Match MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal">
<xacml:AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">[APP]</xacml:AttributeValue>
<xacml:AttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:altinn:app"
Category="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:resource"
DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
MustBePresent="false"/>
</xacml:Match>
<xacml:Match MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal">
<xacml:AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">Task_1</xacml:AttributeValue>
<xacml:AttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:altinn:task"
Category="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:resource"
DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
MustBePresent="false"/>
</xacml:Match>
</xacml:AllOf>
</xacml:AnyOf>
<xacml:AnyOf>
<xacml:AllOf>
<xacml:Match MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal">
<xacml:AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">myServerAction</xacml:AttributeValue>
<xacml:AttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id"
Category="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:action"
DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string"
MustBePresent="false"/>
</xacml:Match>
</xacml:AllOf>
</xacml:AnyOf>
</xacml:Target>
</xacml:Rule>
<!-- End of policy.xml definition omitted for brevity -->