# Best way to send dashboard results to external API?
**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/best-way-to-send-dashboard-results-to-external-api/8785
**Category:** OpenDistro
**Tags:** discuss
**Created:** [March 1, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/best-way-to-send-dashboard-results-to-external-api/8785 "2022-03-01T19:18:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@DaCastle](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/DaCastle)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/best-way-to-send-dashboard-results-to-external-api/8785/1 "2022-03-01T19:18:23Z")
Hey OpenSearch community,
My hopeful use case is to add a button to a (Discover?) widget that when clicked can parse & pass the widget’s data field/values to an external API.
I believe this would lead me to creating a ‘UI Actions & Triggers’ plugin referenced in the [ui action examples](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/tree/1.2/examples/ui_action_examples), but as the ‘uiActionsExplorer’ examples do not utilize alterations to dashboard widgets, I’m hoping I might be able to get some insight and advice into whether I’m on the right track and/or references/documentation that might help me on my way.
Thanks for your time,
Dakota
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### Author:  [@DaCastle](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/DaCastle)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/best-way-to-send-dashboard-results-to-external-api/8785/2 "2022-03-02T18:46:09Z")
Hmm now I’m thinking I want to go with creating an embeddable plugin that utilizes UI action/triggers…
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### Author:  [@amolusare](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/amolusare)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/best-way-to-send-dashboard-results-to-external-api/8785/3 "2025-06-19T12:28:24Z")
Hello @DaCastle ,
I’m looking exact same functionlity, can you tell me
you able to ipmlement this?
with creating an embeddable plugin that utilizes UI action/triggers…?