The Siebel execute business service activity is used to
run a Siebel business service on the Siebel Business Applications
server.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have:
About this task
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. The business service can be a standard
business service like Siebel Contact or a custom business service
where the integration object needs to be selected.
Procedure
- In an active orchestration, open the Activities tab
and expand the Siebel folder contents.
- Drag the Execute Business Service activity
icon onto the orchestration.
- When the activity shows in the orchestration, the Siebel
Execute Business Service 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 Siebel endpoint.
- You can create the endpoint by clicking New and
enter the required connection details. Click OK to save and use the
endpoint for this configuration.
- To make any 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.
- Type the repository name in the Repository Name text
box. The repository name is populated with a default value, which
represents the Siebel Repository. Specify the repository name if it
is not same as the default value. All the metadata needed for discovering
the objects are retrieved from this repository.
- Select the business service.
- Click Browse to display the list
of Business Services.
- Use the Business Service Filter to
filter the business services during selection.
- Optional: Click Refresh to update
the current object list from the Siebel server.
- Select a Business Service from the business service
list and click Next. The list
of business operations for the selected business service is displayed.
- If the business service has a fixed integration object associated
with it then after selecting the business operation, click Finish to
generate the schemas for the map input/output.
- If the business service has no fixed integration object associated
with it then after selecting the business operation click Next and
select the integration objects for the input/output message.
- Select Map Inputs from the Checklist.
The XML Schemas generated from the selected service of the Execute
Business Service activity are displayed as nodes under
the request input parameter in the To Activity panel.
- Create a map between orchestration variables and the input
parameter of the activity.
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 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. 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 from 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 the orchestration
variables.
Results
You have configured the Siebel Execute Business Service activity.