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Softools (Preview)

Softools is a web-based application platform where off-the-shelf and custom apps can be designed, built and deployed in hours.

This connector is available in the following products and regions:

Service Class Regions
Logic Apps Standard All Logic Apps regions except the following:
     -   Azure Government regions
     -   Azure China regions
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Power Automate Premium All Power Automate regions except the following:
     -   US Government (GCC)
     -   US Government (GCC High)
     -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Power Apps Premium All Power Apps regions except the following:
     -   US Government (GCC)
     -   US Government (GCC High)
     -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Contact
Name Softools Support
URL https://support.softools.net
Email support@softools.net
Connector Metadata
Publisher Softools Limited
Website https://www.softools.net
Privacy policy https://www.softools.net/privacy-policy
Categories Business Intelligence;Data

Softools is a leading NoCode platform for building business process applications. Softools is a web-based application platform where off-the-shelf and custom apps can be designed, built and deployed in hours.

Prerequisites

Users require an Enterprise License or have a Softools site to use our apis.

An API Key is required to call the API, this can be found under My Profile on your Softools Site.

An App Identifier is required from most API calls.

How to get credentials

Users require an Enterprise License or have a Softools site to use our apis. An API Key can be found under My Profile on your Softools Site.

Get started with your connector

Please use these instructions to deploy this connector as a custom connector within Microsoft Power Automate and Power Apps.

Known issues and limitations

Rate limits can be found here

Common errors and remedies

N/A

FAQ

More support documentation can be found here

Creating a connection

The connector supports the following authentication types:

Default Parameters for creating connection. All regions Not shareable

Default

Applicable: All regions

Parameters for creating connection.

This is not shareable connection. If the power app is shared with another user, another user will be prompted to create new connection explicitly.

Name Type Description Required
KEY securestring The KEY for this API True

Throttling Limits

Name Calls Renewal Period
API calls per connection 100 60 seconds

Actions

Archive a record

Archive a record. Call this before delete.

Create a record

Send all field values including defaults when adding a new record to an App

Delete a record

Delete a record. To delete a record you need to archive first.

Get a Record

Gets a record

Get all records

Gets a list of all records from app. Can iterate using $top and $skip

Get basic field info

Get basic field data for an app

Get report records

Gets a list of records from report, limited to 250 records per request. Only returns report field data. Can iterate using $top and $skip

Patch a Record

The Softools Api caters for Delta updates, meaning you can send only the changes which are relevant and not the entire document per PATCH request.

Unarchive a record

Unarchive a record.

Archive a record

Archive a record. Call this before delete.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Identifier of the record
RecordID True string

Identifier of the record

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

Returns

Body
Message

Create a record

Send all field values including defaults when adding a new record to an App

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

object

Returns

Body
Message

Delete a record

Delete a record. To delete a record you need to archive first.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Identifier of the record
RecordID True string

Identifier of the record

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

Returns

Body
Message

Get a Record

Gets a record

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Identifier of the record
RecordID True string

Identifier of the record

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

Returns

Get all records

Gets a list of all records from app. Can iterate using $top and $skip

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Number or records to skip
$skip True number

Skips records, setting to 1 will return the second record

Number or records to take
$top True number

The number of records to return, max = 250

The field indentifier to order by in braces [FieldIdentifier]
$orderby string

Field to order by [fieldIdentifier] asc/desc

Odata filter example [TextField1] eq 'My record'
$filter string

Provide an oData filter string to filter records by. In the form [fieldIdentifier] operation filterValue Example [textField] eq 'Text'

Operators allowed Eq Equal /Suppliers?$filter=[City] eq 'Redmond' Ne Not equal /Suppliers?$filter=[City] ne 'London' Gt Greater than /Products?$filter=[Price] gt 20 Ge Greater than or equal /Products?$filter=[Price] ge 10 Lt Less than /Products?$filter=[Price] lt 20 Le Less than or equal /Products?$filter=[Price] le 100 And Logical and /Products?$filter=[Price] le 200 and Price gt 3.5

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

Returns

Get basic field info

Get basic field data for an app

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

Tenant is usually in the site url {tenant}.off.softools.net, however sometimes this is an alias. Contact systems administrator to confirm it.

Returns

Get report records

Gets a list of records from report, limited to 250 records per request. Only returns report field data. Can iterate using $top and $skip

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Identifier of the record
ReportID True number

Id of report

Number or records to skip
$skip True number

Skips records, setting to 1 will return the second record

Number or records to take
$top True number

The number of records to return, max = 250

The field indentifier to order by in braces [FieldIdentifier]
$orderby string

Field to order by [fieldIdentifier] asc/desc

Odata filter example [TextField1] eq 'My record'
$filter string

Provide an oData filter string to filter records by. In the form [fieldIdentifier] operation filterValue Example [textField] eq 'Text'

Operators allowed Eq Equal /Suppliers?$filter=[City] eq 'Redmond' Ne Not equal /Suppliers?$filter=[City] ne 'London' Gt Greater than /Products?$filter=[Price] gt 20 Ge Greater than or equal /Products?$filter=[Price] ge 10 Lt Less than /Products?$filter=[Price] lt 20 Le Less than or equal /Products?$filter=[Price] le 100 And Logical and /Products?$filter=[Price] le 200 and Price gt 3.5

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

Returns

Patch a Record

The Softools Api caters for Delta updates, meaning you can send only the changes which are relevant and not the entire document per PATCH request.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App. Can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Identifier of the record
RecordID True string

Id of the record

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

object

Returns

Body
Message

Unarchive a record

Unarchive a record.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
App Identifier
AppIdentifier True string

Identifier for the App, can be found in the app Url /App/{AppIdentifier} or /{AppIdentifier}

Identifier of the record
RecordID True string

Identifier of the record

Tenant Identifier
tenant True string

The tenant can be obtained from your system administrator

Returns

Body
Message

Definitions

Message

Name Path Type Description
Message
Message string

basic-fields-response

Name Path Type Description
Identifier
Identifier string
Type
Type integer

List-record-response

Name Path Type Description
Items

Record-Response

Name Path Type Description
_id
_id string
AppIdentifier
AppIdentifier string
CreatedByUserId
CreatedByUserId string
CreatedByUser
CreatedByUser string
$date
CreatedDate.$date integer
UpdatedByUserId
UpdatedByUserId string
UpdatedByUser
UpdatedByUser string
$date
UpdatedDate.$date integer
Identifier
Identifier string
QuickFilterSearchText
QuickFilterSearchText string
Id
Id string
EditableAccessForUser
EditableAccessForUser boolean