This example shows you how to call an external application from within the Swift MEAP™ application.
The example in the next section calls a Web page hosted locally, shows the data in an HTML table, and upon submit redirects to the Swift MEAP™ application showing the original record that was open before the outbound call. The overall steps in this example, which are the typical steps for calling external applications from within the Swift MEAP™ application, are:
- Call the external application from within the Swift MEAP™ application.
- Pass data from the Swift MEAP™ application to the external application.
- Return to the same record that was open in the Swift MEAP™ application before launching the external application.
The following assumptions are made in this example:
- The Contacts module is available.
- A Web container (for example, nodejs) is available, which can listen for HTTP requests.