Integration of remote software applications into a workflow

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• identifying, by an action design software application configured to define respective interfaces of remote software applications for integration into workflows, a remote software application system from a plurality of remote software application system by using a particular service identifier or one or more service identifiers, on which the remote software applications are exposed for execution, wherein persistent storage is configured to store definitions of the respective interfaces;
• obtaining, by the action design software application and from the remote software application system, a specification that defines attributes of a particular remote software application of the remote software applications;
• determining, by the action design software application and based on the specification, (i) one or more objects accessible by way of the particular remote software application and (ii) a plurality of functions of the particular remote software application invokable to interact with the one or more objects;
• generating, by the action design software application, a plurality of actions that define an interface for the particular remote software application by:
• enabling a first portion of the plurality of actions such that actions of the first portion are available for integration into the workflows;
• disabling a second portion of the plurality of actions such that actions of the second portion are not available for integration into the workflows;
• transmitting, to the remote software application system, a request for executing one or more functions of the plurality of functions based on the first portion of the plurality of actions;
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• receiving, from the remote software application system, an output of the one or more functions based on the request;
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• storing, in the persistent storage, the plurality of actions to define the interface.

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• identifying a remote software application system from a plurality of available remote software application systems by using a particular service identifier of one or more service identifiers, on which remote software applications are exposed for execution, wherein persistent storage is configured to store definitions of respective interfaces of the remote software applications for integration into workflows;
• obtaining, from the remote software application system, a specification that defines attributes of a particular remote software application of the remote software applications;
• determining, based on the specification, (i) one or more objects accessible by way of the particular remote software application and (ii) a plurality of functions of the particular remote software application invokable to interact with the one or more objects;
• generating a plurality of actions that define an interface for the particular remote software application by:
• enabling a first portion of the plurality of actions such that actions of the first portion are available for integration into the workflows;
• disabling a second portion of the plurality of actions such that actions of the second portion are not available for integration into the workflows;
• transmitting, to the remote software application system, a request for executing one or more functions of the plurality of functions based on the first portion of the plurality of actions;
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• receiving, from the remote software application system, an output of the one or more functions based on the request;
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• storing, in the persistent storage, the plurality of actions to define the interface.