{"id":2253,"date":"2026-03-09T01:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2253"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:08:26","password":"","slug":"how-do-i-use-the-api-connect-node","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/how-do-i-use-the-api-connect-node\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I use the API Connect node?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Add an&nbsp;<strong>API Connect<\/strong>&nbsp;node and configure it in&nbsp;<strong>Settings \u2192 API Management<\/strong>: define the API (URL, method, headers, query params, body, response type JSON\/XML\/PLAIN). You can use variables in params and headers via the variable picker. Optionally set&nbsp;<strong>Store output in variable<\/strong>&nbsp;to a Local or Global variable. The node has&nbsp;<strong>Success<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Failed<\/strong>&nbsp;ports (no Continue). Use&nbsp;<strong>Test API<\/strong>&nbsp;in API Management to verify before saving. The workflow execution engine calls this API and branches on Success\/Failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add an&nbsp;API Connect&nbsp;node and configure it in&nbsp;Settings \u2192 API Management: define the API (URL, method, headers, query params, body, response type JSON\/XML\/PLAIN). You can use variables in params and headers via the variable picker. Optionally set&nbsp;Store output in variable&nbsp;to a Local or Global variable. The node has&nbsp;Success&nbsp;and&nbsp;Failed&nbsp;ports (no Continue). Use&nbsp;Test API&nbsp;in API Management to verify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1964],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2253","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-workflow-builder"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":92,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Workflow Builder","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/workflow-builder\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}