Tasks

Your application invokes the following tasks to present a table of topics or actions.

• Get a list of topics
  Your application retrieves a list of topics by using the getTopicContexts task, which returns a list of topic contexts with the name and identifier of each topic.
• Get a list of actions
  Your application retrieves a list of actions for a topic available to the user by using the getActionContexts task that returns a list of action contexts with the action name and ID and the associated topic ID.
• Get a list of work teams
  Your application can retrieve a list of work teams by using the getWorkteamContexts task.
• Get a list of topic templates
  Your application can retrieve a list of topic templates. The topic templates can be used to prepopulate new topic fields and actions.
• Attach to an existing topic
  Your application can create an attachment to an existing topic.
• Attach to a new topic
  Your application can create an attachment to a new topic.
• Attach to an existing action
  Your application can create an attachment to an existing action by using the attachAction task.
• Attach to a new action
  Your application can create an attachment to an existing action by using the attachAction task.
• Get field metadata
  Your application can retrieve a list of all fields for topics, topic templates, work teams, or actions by using the getFieldMetadata task.
• Get field values
  Your application can retrieve a list of all field values for each topic, topic template, work team, or action by calling the getFieldValues task.
• Get filters
  Your application can retrieve a list of fields that have been set up as filters and their values by using the getFilters task. The Filters object is returned from the getFilters task and is an ordered list of filter field names.
• Get a list of projects
  Your application can retrieve a list of existing projects by using the getProjects task.
• Get a list of action types
  Your application can retrieve a list of action types by using the getActionTypes task.
• Get user info
  Your application can view the topic permissions for a user by using the getUserInfo task.
• Get topics service properties
  Your application can retrieve the Oracle Empirica Topics server version and other properties by using the getTopicsServiceProperties task.
• Get topic workflow configurations
  Your application can retrieve a list of topic workflow configurations by using the getTopicWorkflowConfigurations task.
• Stream file attachment
  For an attachment of type FILE or IMAGE, clients must first stream files to the server and include a GUID in the attachmentInput parameter, and then call one of the attach tasks.