Create an IBM Cloud Function action

Introduction

IBM Cloud Functions is used as an intermediate service between the dialog’s webhook in IBM Watson Assistant (which can make a POST request to a single URL only) and the various REST APIs in SPM.

Use the proceeding steps to create an IBM Cloud Function action.

You can edit the actions to include the sample code that is provided and test the retrieval of verifications for a specific case or person. For information about how to invoke your action or to view other troubleshooting issues, see Troubleshooting.

Create an action

The following steps outline how to create an action:

Go to the IBM Cloud catalog.
Search for Functions.
Click the Functions service.
Click Start Creating > Action.
Type your Action name, for example caseworker.
If you have not already created a package named curam-rest, click Create Package, enter curam-rest and click Create. Otherwise select curam-rest from the `Enclosing package’ dropdown.
Click Node.js as the runtime language.
Click Create to create your action. You can now start editing the action.
To create an action for verifications and person repeat the steps above.

The following list outlines important notes:

Make sure that you work on a Cloud Foundry-based namespace.
Make sure that the IBM Cloud Function and IBM Watson™ Assistant instance are in the same region.

IBM Cloud Functions actions: Overview

IBM Cloud Functions actions: Edit an action