Run links
Mechanic run links give your users a useful point of entry.
Some tasks lend themselves to manual invocation by a user, on demand. In these cases, Mechanic makes available run links: URLs from which a task run may be created, suitable for bookmarking or sharing.
Run links can be useful in an external application, email, or website – anywhere a custom user experience would be improved by a shortcut to an opportunity to craft a specific Mechanic task run.
Run link format varies based on the style of task run desired.
For tasks subscribing to mechanic/user/trigger and mechanic/user/text, the run link points to /apps/mechanic/tasks/{task id}/run, as illustrated below:
https://example.myshopify.com/admin/apps/mechanic/tasks/7ec...da4/run
For tasks subscribing to mechanic/user/text, the text submission may be prefilled using the
data query parameter, as in ?data=drink+me%21.For tasks subscribing to mechanic/user/{Shopify resource} (i.e. for tasks responding to Shopify admin action links), create a link pointing to /apps/mechanic/tasks/run within the Shopify admin, using the
resource_type and ids[] query parameters as shown below.https://example.myshopify.com/admin/apps/mechanic/tasks/run?resource_type=order&ids[]=12345&ids[]=67890
Breaking this down, the URL consists of the following:
- Protocol, host, pathhttps://example.myshopify.com/admin/apps/mechanic/tasks/run
resource_typequery parameterresource_type=orderids[]query parameterids[]=12345&ids[]=67890
Repeat the
ids[] query parameter as needed, for each relevant resource ID.Last modified 4mo ago