Automatically creating a new app from a separate app webform submission?
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I have a unique challenge that I'm trying to tackle. I don't think it's possible in Podio. But if it is that would be great. Here's the situation. We created an app called "Tasks" that we use as our main task tool. It has a bunch of custom fields including a due date, task name, etc. We also have 4 (possibly 5) other apps that are used to collect information from customers (each form has a different collection purpose). Technically, any item that is submitted through one of the customer collection forms is a considered a task. So the way it's set up right now, there is the main task app but then we have 4 or 5 other apps that we have to check regarding things that need to be done. It's a lot of extra work. What would be awesome is if when one of the 4 or 5 customer webform apps is submitted, certain pieces of submitted information would be passed on to the main task app to create a new task item with a reference back to the customer submitted app item. For example, let's say the item name that is submitted by the customer would automatically create and populate a new main task app item name and the due date submitted by the customer would populate the due date of the main task app item. Not all of the information submitted by the customer would need to pass over to create a task on the main app item, but the name and due date would be great. Hopefully that makes sense. We're just trying to figure out how to reduce the number of places people have to check for new / task items. It's kind of a pain right now. If it's not possible, by default, is there a way to create an api to do it? Thanks!
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Hi Russel,
This is not something you can do out of the box, but it's certainly possible to write an API integration that would handle it for you. You can use webhooks to 'listen' for changes in apps and then act accordingly (copy content over and whatnot). We have a description of webhooks at https://developers.podio.com/examples/webhooks
/Andreas
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Hi Russel,
We are very close to putting up a partner website that will list our new Podio Partners (details: http://blog.podio.com/2012/11/29/partners/ ). When that goes live you can browse all our partners and see who you would like to work with. If you are in a hurry you can contact support@podio.com for a referral.
As for time estimates I cannot give you one. They vary so much from programmer to programmer and it depends a lot on whether you get someone who has previous experience with Podio and what their general skill level is. I can only say that this is not a complicated problem to solve.
/Andreas
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You might try Anders Bendix Kiel (anders@bendixkiel.org) who can do anything ever asked of Podio. His company is based in Denmark (as is Podio); he speaks perfect English and is one of Podio's main support companies.
Anders' quotation for API programming to meet our requirements was more than we can afford right now, but in your case he just might be your answer. Tell him I recommended him :)
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