Workflow Manager Web Service Activity

With this activity, you can read external data in order to use it in your organization's workflows, e.g. if you want to automatically enter the invoice amount in the form in your account payable workflow.

Activity settings

Name

Enter a name for the Web Service activity here.

Address

Type in the Web Service URI here and click Find Methods. The methods are loaded.

Method

Select a service method from the drop-down menu.

Parameter

To specify the input parameters, click on Edit. This opens a new dialog with the available parameters.

Result

To specify the event parameters, click on Edit. This opens a new dialog with the available parameters.

Web Service demo example

From the DocuWare document pool you can download a Sample Web Service and publication instructions for this. The Web Service has the following methods:

ReturnFiveDaysLater Input: Date variable Return: Date variable plus five days
ReturnN0
- Input: Two numeric variables without decimal places
- Return: The numeric variables are added and the result is returned as a numeric value.
ReturnN2
- Input: Two numeric variables with two decimal places
- Return: The numeric variables are added and the result is returned as a numeric value.
ReverseString
- Input: A character string is reversed.
- Return: Reversed character string
TimeoutString
- Input: A string variable
- Return: Nothing – the activity times out. These methods can be used to simulate an error in the Web Service.