Use the PeopleSoft Get Component Interface activity to
retrieve component interfaces from the PeopleSoft server. With this
activity you can access the PeopleSoft component and retrieve values
from the PeopleSoft server.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have:
About this task
Use this task to retrieve component interfaces from the PeopleSoft
server. The call to this activity is a synchronous call where the
input data is sent to the activity for processing and the response
is sent back to the orchestration.
Procedure
- In an active orchestration, open the Activities tab and expand the PeopleSoft folder contents.
- Drag the Get Component Interface activity icon onto the orchestration. The PeopleSoft
Get Component Interface Checklist is displayed.
- In the Checklist, click Summary.
- Review the contents of the Activity Name field, and make the required changes.
- In the Checklist, click Pick Endpoint.
- Click Browse and use the Project Explorer dialog box to select the relevant PeopleSoft
endpoint.
- Optional: You can create the endpoint by clicking New and specifying the required connection details. Click OK to save and use the endpoint for this configuration.
- To make required changes to the selected endpoint configuration,
click Edit to access the options in a separate
window. Any changes you make globally affects all uses of the endpoint
in active orchestrations.
- In the Checklist, click Configure.
- Browse for the component interface name in the Component Interface text box. Component interface name
is populated with a default value, which represents the PeopleSoft
interface. Browse for the component interface name if it is not same
as the default value. All the metadata needed for discovering the
objects are retrieved from this component interface.
- In the Checklist, click Retry. Review the default settings and make the required
changes. For more information, see Specifying retry and Delivery Options for PeopleSoft Activities.
- Select the Map Inputs in the Checklist. The XML Schemas generated from the selected
object of the Get Component Interface activity
are displayed as nodes under the request input parameter in the To Activity panel.
Note: The PeopleSoft connector
generates a single input schema for all the objects used by the activities.
There may be some fields that are redundant and not applicable for
this activity. You must set the GETKEYS field for
this activity. For Wbi_Customer_Ci component interface,
you must specify the value for the customerid field.
- Create a map between the orchestration variables and the
input parameter of the activity.
Note: Values must be
provided at run time for any mandatory elements of the input structure.
A value can be provided by specifying a default value for element
or by linking the element with an input node. During run time if no
value is provided for a mandatory element, the activity throws an
exception, which is reported by the Web Management Console (WMC).
If a value is not provided at run time for an optional input parameter,
no exception is thrown during run time.
- Select the Map Outputs in the Checklist. The XML Schema generated to hold the response
of the activity is displayed as nodes under the response output parameter
in the From Activity panel.
- Create a map between the output parameters and orchestration
variables.
Results
You have configured the PeopleSoft Get Component Interface
activity.