Add custom flow actions

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Custom flow actions in Shopware Apps are available starting with Shopware 6.4.10.0 and are not supported in previous versions.

Besides the default actions, developers can add custom, predefined, and configurable web hook actions to the flow builder.

After reading, you will be able to

• Create the basic setup of an app
• Create custom actions for the flow builder
• Use custom actions to interact with third-party services

Prerequisites

Please make sure you already have a working Shopware 6 store running (either cloud or self-hosted). Prior knowledge about the Flow Builder feature of Shopware 6 is useful.

Please see the Flow Builder Concept for more information.

Create the app wrapper

To get started with your app, create an apps folder inside the custom folder of your Shopware dev installation. In there, create another directory for your application and provide a manifest.xml file, following the structure below:

└── custom
    ├── apps
    │   └── FlowBuilderActionApp
    │       └── Resources
    │           └── flow-action.xml
    │           └── app-icon.png
    │           └── slack-icon.png
    │       └── manifest.xml
    └── plugins

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From 6.5.2.0, you can define the flow action in flow.xml. The flow-action.xml will be removed from 6.6.0.0.

File name	Description
FlowBuilderActionApp	Your app's technical name
app-icon.png	The app's icon
slack-icon.png	Your action icon will be defined for each action in the flow-action.xml file. (optional, icons will default to a fallback)
flow-action.xml	Place to define your new actions
manifest.xml	Base information about your app

Manifest file

The manifest file is the central point of your app. It defines the interface between your app and the Shopware instance. It provides all the information concerning your app, as seen in the minimal version below:

// manifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shopware/shopware/trunk/src/Core/Framework/App/Manifest/Schema/manifest-2.0.xsd">
    <meta>
        <name>FlowBuilderActionApp</name>
        <label>Flow Builder Action App</label>
        <label lang="de-DE">Flow Builder Aktions-App</label>
        <description>This is the example description for app</description>
        <description lang="de-DE">Dies ist die Beispielbeschreibung für app</description>
        <author>shopware AG</author>
        <copyright>(c) shopware AG</copyright>
        <version>4.14.0</version>
        <icon>Resources/app-icon.png</icon>
        <license>MIT</license>
    </meta>
</manifest>

WARNING

The name of your app that you provide in the manifest file needs to match the folder name of your app.

Define the flow action

To create a flow action, you need to define a <flow-action> block within a file called flow-action.xml. Each <flow-action> represents one action and you can define an arbitrary number of actions.

// Resources/flow-action.xml
<flow-actions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shopware/shopware/trunk/src/Core/Framework/App/Flow/Schema/flow-1.0.xsd">
    <flow-action>
        ... # The first action
    </flow-action>
    <flow-action>
        ... # The second action
    </flow-action>
    <flow-action>
        ... # The third action
    </flow-action>
    ...
</flow-actions>

From 6.5.2.0, to create a flow action, you must define a <flow-actions> block within a file called flow.xml. Each <flow-action> in <flow-actions> represents one action, and you can define an arbitrary number of actions.

<flow-extensions xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shopware/shopware/trunk/src/Core/Framework/App/Flow/Schema/flow-1.0.xsd">
    <flow-actions>
        <flow-action>
            ... # The first action
        </flow-action>
        <flow-action>
            ... # The second action
        </flow-action>
        <flow-action>
            ... # The third action
        </flow-action>
    </flow-actions>
    ...
</flow-extensions>

A single flow action would look like this:

<flow-action>
    <meta>
        <name>slackmessage</name>
        <label>Send slack message</label>
        <label lang="de-DE">Slack-Nachricht senden</label>
        <badge>Slack</badge>
        <description>Slack send message description</description>
        <description lang="de-DE">Dies ist die Beispielbeschreibung für app</description>
        <url>https://hooks.slack.com/services/{id}</url>
        <sw-icon>default-communication-speech-bubbles</sw-icon>
        <icon>slack.png</icon>
        <requirements>orderAware</requirements>
        <requirements>customerAware</requirements>
    </meta>
    ...
</flow-action>

Key	Required	Description
name	yes	The technical name of your action, unique for all actions
label	yes	A name to be shown for your action in the actions list or action modal title
badge	no	An attached badge shown behind the label in the action modal title
description	yes	Detailed information for your action
sw-icon	no	An icon component name from the icon library
icon	no	Alternatively, a path to your action icon. In the case you define both <sw-icon> and <icon>, the <icon> will be take precedence in this case.
requirements	yes	Available action triggers, read more below
url	yes	External webhook location. Shopware will call this URL when the action is executed

requirements

Requirements will decide for which trigger events your action is available. Example: The checkout.order.placed has an orderAware requirements - indicating that your action is allow to use be used in the checkout.order.placed event. It is defined using <requirements>orderAware</requirements> in your app action definition.

For each value when you define, it'll represent one of the aware interfaces from the core.

To fulfill the requirements, refer to a subset of action triggers aware:

Value	Interface
customerAware	Shopware\Core\Framework\Event\CustomerAware
customerGroupAware	Shopware\Core\Framework\Event\CustomerGroupAware
delayAware	Shopware\Core\Framework\Event\DelayAware
mailAware	Shopware\Core\Framework\Event\MailAware
orderAware	Shopware\Core\Framework\Event\OrderAware
salesChannelAware	Shopware\Core\Framework\Event\SalesChannelAware
userAware	Shopware\Core\Framework\Event\UserAware

Header parameters

<flow-action>
    <meta>
        ...
    </meta>
    <headers>
        <parameter type="string" name="content-type" value="application/json"/>
    </headers>
    ...
</flow-action>

Key	Description
type	Parameter type - currently only string supported
name	The header key
value	The header value

Parameters

<flow-action>
    <meta>
        ...
    </meta>
    <headers>
        ...
    </headers>
    <parameters>
        <parameter type="string" name="text" value="{{ message }} \n Order Number: {{ order.orderNumber }}"/>
    </parameters>
    ...
</flow-action>

Define the parameter for the URL body based on your URL webhook services.

Key	Description
type	Type of parameter, only support string type.
name	The body key for your URL.
value	The content message for your URL; free to design your content message here.
{{ message }}	The variable from your <input-field> defined in flow-action.xml.
{{ order.orderNumber }}	For each trigger event, the action will have the variables suitable. Read more variables here.

With the parameters configured like described above, an exemplary call of your Webhook Action could look like this:

    POST https://hooks.slack.com/services/{id} {
        headers:
            content-type: application/json
        body:
            text: {{ message }} \n Order Number: {{ order.orderNumber }}
    }

Action configuration

You can make your flow action configurable in the Administration by adding input fields. Based on your configuration - similar to the app configurations - you can later on use these configuration values within flow parameters.

<flow-action>
    <meta>
        ...
    </meta>
    <headers>
        ...
    </headers>
    <parameters>
        ...
    </parameters>
    <config>
        <input-field type="text">
            <name>message</name>
            <label>Message</label>
            <label lang="de-DE">Gegenstand</label>
            <place-holder>Placeholder</place-holder>
            <place-holder lang="de-DE">Platzhalter</place-holder>
            <required>true</required>
            <helpText>Help Text</helpText>
            <helpText lang="de-DE">Hilfstext</helpText>
        </input-field>
    </config>
</flow-action>

Available input field attributes:

Key	Required
name	Yes
label	Yes
place-holder	No
required	No
helpText	No

You assemble your configuration from a variety of input fields.

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To get more information on how to create configuration forms, see Plugin Configurations.

Type	Shopware component
text	<sw-text-field/>
textarea	<sw-textarea-field/>
text-editor	<sw-text-editor/>
url	<sw-url-field/>
password	<sw-password-field/>
int	<sw-number-field/>
float	<sw-number-field/>
bool	<sw-switch-field/>
checkbox	<sw-checkbox-field/>
datetime	<sw-datepicker/>
date	<sw-datepicker/>
time	<sw-datepicker/>
colorpicker	<sw-colorpicker/>
single-select	<sw-single-select/>
multi-select	<sw-multi-select/>

Install the App

The app can now be installed by running the following command:

bin/console app:install --activate FlowBuilderActionApp

Further steps

• Flow action example configuration page
• Schema definition for flow actions (GitHub)`