Trigger UI action through rest api call

[scocuzza]

Hello,

I want to be able to trigger a UI action that is located on a record on a specific table

I tried using this method found in this link: https://servicenowthink.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/call-any-ui-action-with-rest-api-or-ajax-ootb-updat...

This is in python:

url = 'https://URLHERE/api/now/ui/ui_action/sys_id_of_ui_action?' \
'sysparm_table=table_of_target_record&' \
'sysparm_sys_id=' sys_id_of_target_record& '\

'api=api'

headers = {"Content-Type":"application/json","Accept":"application/json"}
response = requests.post(url, auth=(user, pwd), headers=headers, verify = False )

if response.status_code != 200 and response.status_code != 201:
print('Status:', response.status_code, 'Headers:', response.headers, 'Error Response:',response.json())
exit()

data = response.json()

and i am receiving 

{

    "error": {

        "message": "A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0 of ",

        "detail": "A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0 of "

    },

    "status": "failure"

}

is this even possible to perform?

[Aleksas Kucins1]

Try adding this to your body: { "fields": [ { "name": "" } ] }

[scocuzza]

I received 201 created through postman but it actually didnt do anything when i checked the record.

I manually pushed the ui action to check it there was anything stopping the ui action from going through but there was nothing

[Aleksas Kucins1]

Can you show the contents of UI action?

[scocuzza]

This is the XML of the UI action