Hop Server vs Hop Web Application for remotely triggering workflow execution

[marvinhorst]

Currently using HOP for ETL on a single server to populate a data warehouse. Workflows are run and scheduled via cron on the CLI. I want to allow users from another web app to be able to run 2 workflows remotely for an on demand update to the data warehouse. I was hoping to do this with Hop Server running on the same server where the cron jobs are running and where the projects/workflows live. But, I can't figure out how to do this with Hop Server. Perhaps Hop Server is not the tool and Hop Web Application is, which would be disappointing as I have no running Apache Tomcat Web Server and I much preferred something simple like Hop Server.

I was hoping to replicate what I had running on my old Pentaho CE BA server by using Hop Server.

I must be a little thick headed because I can't figure out how do do this from the documentation. Any help is appreciated.

[hansva]

If these are fixed workflows that have to be triggered I would take a look at the Asynchronous web service this will give users a fixed endpoint to call to start the workflow.

[marvinhorst]

Thanks for the quick reply. Got it working!

I also somehow overlooked the fact that hopserver.sh needed to be started with the -e (environment) and -j (project) options to "see" my workflows or a defined webservice