Triggering Temporal Workflows

  • Goal: Trigger an existing Temporal workflow from within Retool

  • Details: I am using Temporal Cloud to run workflows I defined using Temporal's Golang SDK. These are triggered by hitting a gRPC service, which then calls the corresponding SDK function to kick off the workflow. I am looking into using retool to trigger these workflows instead, since there seems to be an integration available. The problem I have now is that gRPC has built-in timeouts, and with long workflows this can become a problem.

The only documentation I can seem to find related to integrating Temporal is about using Temporal to run Retool-defined workflows, which is not what I want. I just want something that can trigger a workflow (just like the Temporal SDK does) from within the Retool UI.

Question: Does anyone have any advice for how I proceed, or could point me to some relevant documentation?

Thank you so much!