OneDevops-OnBots allows to have approval flow for the action commands that are performed by The Workflow app is an application that will make this feature work with your bots. It is a very small and lightweight node application that will handle the approval flow of actions between the bots and chat applications.

Configuration

The configuration variables are included in the .env file which directly located inside the WorkflowApp. Please refer the below table for setting the values of the variables:

Variable Name	Purpose
MONGO_IP	public IP address of the machine where mongodb is running
MONGO_DB	mongodb database name in which tickets for approval flow will be stored
MONGO_COLL	mongodb collection name in which tickets for approval flow will be stored (this collection should be inside the database set as MONGO_DB)
HIPCHAT_AUTH_TOKEN	API access token generated in Hipchat (required only for approval flow with hipchat)
HIPCHAT_URL	<your_hipchat_team_url>/v2/room/
MIDWAREPORT	port number where the workflow app will run
BOT_IP	port number where bot is running

Getting started

1. Clone WorkflowApp from repository
2. Install the dependencies by running the following command inside the Workflow app folder:

npm install

npm install will install the dependencies that are listed in package.json

3. Run the app with the following command:

nodejs app.js

The application has to be reachable from internet beacuse web hosted chat applications like Slack and Hipchat will post data to this application for approval flow.

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