ApptiveGrid

ApptiveGrid is a German no-code database and form builder built on a hypermedia API. Agents list spaces and grids, create and update entities, submit and read forms, and follow the links the server returns to reach any resource.

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An inbound request arrives for a grid that publishes an intake form

Agent parses the request into field values and identifies the target grid

Get Grid returns the field definitions, because an ApptiveGrid write is keyed by field id rather than by the label a person sees

List Forms and Get Form reveal which components the form requires and what actions it runs on submission

Submit Form writes the row through the form, so the form's own validation and its attached actions both fire

The agent reports the created entity and names any component it could not fill from the request

An operator decides whether an incomplete payload gets completed and resubmitted, or written raw with Create Entity

What This Integration Enables

ApptiveGrid is built for German teams whose data arrives through a form rather than through an import. That distinction is not cosmetic. A form in ApptiveGrid carries its own validation and its own attached actions, so submitting through it and writing the same values straight into the grid produce a row that looks the same and a process that is not. FlowRunner agents work with both paths on purpose: Get Grid and Get Form to learn the shape, Submit Form when the form carries logic the business depends on, Create Entity and Update Entity when the write is genuinely raw.

The other thing worth knowing is that ApptiveGrid is a hypermedia API. Every response names what can be done with that resource next, and Follow Link walks those relations, which means an agent can reach the parts of the account the named operations do not cover: views, flows, shares, field changes. That is real reach, and reach is exactly where FlowRunner's human-in-the-loop discipline earns its place. The agent navigates and drafts at machine speed. The write that skips a form, or the link that changes a share rather than reading one, waits for a person.

Without FlowRunner

Two writes, one appearance A row added through the API and a row submitted through the form look identical afterward, and nothing on the record says which path it took

Field ids frozen into scripts Integrations hard code generated field ids, so a schema change breaks the write quietly instead of loudly

Forms as a dead end Submissions land in a grid and someone re-keys them into the systems where the work actually happens

With FlowRunner

The write path becomes a decision Agents read the form definition before writing and choose Submit Form or Create Entity deliberately

Ids read at run time Get Grid supplies the current field definitions on every run, so the write follows the schema as it is today

Forms as the front of a process A submission becomes a lookup, an enrichment, a downstream record, and a flagged exception

Use Case Scenarios

An intake form that does not stop at the grid

A public form collects supplier onboarding details. The agent reads the definition with Get Public Form so it knows every component and the exact link that submits it, then calls Submit Form so ApptiveGrid runs its own validation and fires whatever the team attached to that form. From there the agent keeps going: it creates the matching company record in HubSpot, appends a row to the tracker in Google Sheets, and posts the new supplier to the operations channel in Slack. The form stops being a collection point and starts being the first step of a process.
The grid as the operations team's working table

An agent runs on a schedule against a grid the team uses to track open items. List Entities pages the rows, Get Grid supplies the field ids, and Update Entity writes status changes back without disturbing the columns people edit by hand. Where a row needs enrichment from a system of record, the agent pulls it from PostgreSQL and writes only the fields it owns. Nobody exports anything, and the grid stays the place the team actually looks.
Reaching past the named operations

An account uses ApptiveGrid features the connector does not name individually, such as stateful views or a flow's transitions. The agent starts at Get Current User, reads the relations the account actually publishes, and uses Follow Link to reach them. Read relations it follows on its own. When the next relation would change a share, retype a field, or remove a hook, the agent stops and shows the operator the exact relation and what it is about to do, because a hypermedia API will happily hand an agent a door nobody enumerated.

Human-in-Loop Highlight

The gate on this connector sits on a difference that is invisible after the fact. Create Entity and Submit Form can write the same values to the same grid, but only Submit Form runs the form's validation and the actions the team attached to it, and once the row exists there is nothing on it that records which route it took. So when an intake agent has a payload that does not satisfy every component of the form, it does not quietly fall back to the raw write. It posts the choice: "This submission is missing the Delivery Terms component, which the supplier form marks required and which triggers the procurement notification. Complete it and submit through the form, or write the row directly and accept that the form's actions will not run?" The operator answers. The agent then either finishes the submission or writes the raw entity with the consequence understood. What made this safe was not the agent's field mapping. It was that the decision to bypass a business rule belonged to a person.

Agent processes routinely

Detects exception requiring judgment

Clear match Continues automatically

Ambiguous Routes to human via preferred channel

Human decides

Agent resumes with decision

Agent Capabilities

19 actions

Account and Navigation

Get Current User Reads the user behind the API credential and returns the relations the account publishes. This is the guaranteed entry point and the source of the user id other operations need.
Follow Link Follows a relation taken from a previous response. This is how a workflow reaches the parts of ApptiveGrid the named operations do not cover, including views, flows, shares and field changes.

Spaces

List Spaces Lists the spaces the credential can reach. A space is the top level container and holds grids.
Get Space Reads one space, including the relations to its grids and shares.
Create Space Creates a space. Used to provision a container per client, project or department.

Grids

List Grids Lists the grids in a space. A grid is ApptiveGrid's table.
Get Grid Reads a grid with its field definitions. The field ids returned here are what every entity write is keyed by, so this is the call that makes writing rows possible.
Create Grid Creates a grid in a space. Used to stand up a table from a template at the start of an engagement.

Entities

List Entities Lists the rows of a grid. ApptiveGrid calls a row an entity.
Get Entity Reads one row of a grid. Used to gather the current state before a decision or an update.
Create Entity Adds a row to a grid, keyed by field id. The raw write, which bypasses any form attached to the grid.
Update Entity Changes the named values on one row and leaves the rest untouched. The safe default for enrichment and status changes.
Delete Entity Permanently removes one row from a grid.

Forms

List Forms Lists the forms attached to a grid. Used to discover whether a grid carries form logic before writing to it.
Get Form Reads a form's definition, including its component list and the link that submits it.
Get Public Form Reads a shared form by its public link id, without needing to know which space or grid it belongs to.
Submit Form Submits data through a form, running the form's own validation and any actions attached to it. The write to prefer whenever a form carries logic.

Hooks and Flows

List Hooks Lists the hooks configured for the user. A hook is ApptiveGrid's outbound notification, and Follow Link reaches the relations that create, test or remove one.
List Flows Lists the flows configured for the user. Follow Link reaches a flow's nodes, transitions and instances from here.

Frequently Asked Questions

What can FlowRunner do with ApptiveGrid?

FlowRunner agents can run Get Current User, Follow Link, and List Spaces in ApptiveGrid, plus 16 more actions.

Does connecting ApptiveGrid to FlowRunner require OAuth?

No. ApptiveGrid connects to FlowRunner with basic authentication (a username and password), no OAuth flow required.

Can ApptiveGrid trigger a FlowRunner workflow automatically?

ApptiveGrid doesn't currently expose triggers in FlowRunner. It connects as an action step inside workflows started by another trigger.

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