How to use IBM App Connect with Wufoo
Wufoo is a web-based form builder that you can use to create forms, including contact forms, online payments, online surveys, and event registrations. Use IBM® App Connect to connect Wufoo to other applications. For example, you can use IBM App Connect to update other systems automatically when a form is submitted in Wufoo. Similarly, IBM App Connect can complete and submit forms automatically in response to updates in your other applications.
App Connect
Enterprise as a Service connector-
Local connector in
containers (Long Term Support Cycle-3 release) 13.0.7.0-r1 or
later 
Local
connector in containers (Continuous Delivery release)-
Local connector in containers (Long Term Support Cycle-2 release)
Supported product and API versions
To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.
Connecting to Wufoo
- API key
- To obtain the API key for your account, you must have at least one form in Wufoo.
- Log in to your Wufoo account.
- Open the Form Manager by clicking Forms.
- To retrieve your API key, click More, then click API information. The API key is shown on the API Information page and is in the format XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX.
- Subdomain
- To retrieve your subdomain, click Account, then click My Account. The subdomain is the part of the URL between https:// and wufoo.com. For example, if the full URL is shown as https://yourSubdomain.wufoo.com, set the Subdomain field to yourSubdomain.
To connect to a Wufoo endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand Wufoo, then click Connect.
- If you don't have a Wufoo account, you can create an account for the Wufoo free plan to try Wufoo for free.
Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Applications and APIs page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.
General considerations
- (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and
actions that are available on the Applications and APIs
page of the App Connect Designer.
For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.
- Before you add some of the Wufoo events or actions to your
flow, make sure that you have the following resources.
- The New form entry event triggers your flow whenever someone submits a completed Wufoo form. Therefore, to use this event in a flow, you must have a public form in Wufoo. You then specify the name of this form when you add the event to your flow.
- The Create form entry action completes and submits a Wufoo form by using data from the preceding applications in your flow. Therefore, to use this action in a flow, you must have a public form in Wufoo so that IBM App Connect can fill it in. You then specify the name of this form when you add the action to your flow.
- The polling interval for the Wufoo connector when used in a
running flow is 120 seconds, for all Wufoo plans. Therefore,
every 2 minutes, the connector asks Wufoo to check for new
data. (This polling interval is on a higher side to prevent Wufoo API limits from being reached too much.)Tip: If you are using an account for the Wufoo free plan, then you can use the Wufoo connector with that account for up to about 3 hours in one running flow. If you use the same Wufoo free plan account in other flows, then the flow can use the Wufoo connector for less time.
To connect to an account for the Wufoo free plan, consider running only one flow per day.
- If a Wufoo event triggers a flow, you can experience a
slight delay (5 minutes) in getting new records. This delay is primarily due to the following factors:
- The time that Wufoo takes to make a new record ready for querying. This time is around 3 to 4 minutes on average.
- When a record is made available by Wufoo, App Connect retrieves the record within the next 120 seconds.
Events and actions
Wufoo events
These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.
| Object | Event | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Form entries | New form entry | Triggers when someone submits a completed form |
Wufoo actions
Your flow completes these actions on this application.
| Object | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Form entries | Create form entry | Fills out a Wufoo form |
| Retrieve form entries | Retrieves entries that were submitted for a particular Wufoo form | |
| Forms | Retrieve forms | Retrieves a form from Wufoo |
| Reports | Retrieve reports | Retrieves a report from your Wufoo account |
| Users | Retrieve users | Retrieves a user from your Wufoo account |
Examples
Use templates to quickly create flows for Wufoo
Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that complete actions on Wufoo. For example, go to the Discover page and search for Wufoo.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) support
- Form entries
- Reports