FLEXIBLE INTERFACE MODULE

An interface module for a local application provides a user interface to solicit user input for an configuring invocation. The user input solicited by the user interface includes a name of an external query to be executed and an input variable name for the external query. The interface module receives the user input for the configuring invocation; stores the invocation; and receives a trigger, with an input value for the external query, to launch the invocation. In response to receiving the trigger, the interface module executes the invocation to provide, to another interface module for a remote application, a request to execute the external query. The interface module receives, from the other interface module, an output value for the external query and process the output value.