Configure Lookup for WCF > Name/Value > Request tab

Configures a lookup using the existing data format from your data source.

Figure: Request tab

Request tab

How to Start

  1. On the Application Explorer screen, do one of these:
  2. Do one of these:
    • Add your form control:
      1. On the eForm Builder screen, in the Toolbox, open one of these tabs:
        • Common Controls Common Controls icon
        • Advanced Controls Advanced Controls icon
        • Telerik Controls Telerik Controls icon
      2. On your tab, drag one of these controls onto your form:
        • Auto-Suggest Auto-Suggest icon
        • List Box List Box icon
        • Subform Subform icon
        • Check Box Check Box icon
        • Auto Lookup Auto Lookup icon
        • List View List View icon
        • Pop-Up Select Pop-Up Select icon
        • Drop-Down List Drop-Down List icon
        • Auto-Suggest Auto-Suggest icon
        • Chart Chart icon
        • Data Grid Data Grid icon
        • Drop-Down List Drop-Down List icon
        • Data Grid Data Grid icon
        • Multi-Select List Box Multi-Select List Box icon
    • Change your form control:
      1. On your eForm, click the control, and click Edit Edit icon.
  3. On the Configure tab, click Add Lookup Add Lookup icon.
  4. On the Select Data Source Type screen, select WCF Service WCF Service icon, and click Next.
  5. On the Lookup Details screen, select Name/Value, and click Next.
  6. On the Configure Lookup screen, click the Request tab.

Fields

Field Name Definition

Service Operation
Function:
Specifies the name of the method to call.
Accepted Values:
A valid web method name from the specified WCF service.
Default Value:
None
Example:
GetSalesInfo

Also refer to:

Endpoint URL
Function:
Specifies the URL of the endpoint of the web service or WCF service you want to connect.
Accepted Values:
A valid endpoint URL.
Default Value:
None.

However, once a web service is connected, the endpoint URL shows if it is defined in the WSDL file.

Accepts Process Data Variables:
No
Limitations:

Some information about third-party integrations is outside the scope of the AgilePoint NX Product Documentation, and it is the responsibility of the vendors who create and maintain these technologies to provide this information. This includes specific business uses cases and examples; explanations for third-party concepts; details about the data models and input and output data formats for third-party technologies; and various types of IDs, URL patterns, connection string formats, and other technical information that is specific to the third-party technologies. For more information, refer to Where Can I Find Information and Examples for Third-Party Integrations?

Generate Message Contracts
Function:
Specifies if the method you call supplies a message contract or not.

A message contract gives the structure of a SOAP message.

Accepted Values:
  • Selected - The method gives message contracts.
  • Deselected - The method does not give message contracts.
Default Value:
Deselected

Request Mapping
Function:
Connects the WCF service request to your schema. This is mandatory only if the request passes data from the process schema to parameters in the service operation.
To Open this Field:
  1. On the Configure Lookup screen, in the Request tab, select the name of the method from the Service Operation list.
Accepted Values:
To open the Schema Mapper screen, click the Ellipses (...) button.

Use this screen to connect the response to the data model for your process.

Default Value:
None