External Web Services Administration Page

Workflow Manager 2019

In a workflow template, you define the information that you want to gather when a workflow request is submitted by creating data groups containing one or more data elements. Each data group is displayed as a screen of questions, where the data elements define the questions. In some cases, you may want to limit the workflow consumer to choose one item from a combo box, or from a list of options displayed in a grid. One way to populate such combo boxes and grids is to return data using a web method, via a web service. You would do this by completing the following steps:

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Defining a connection to an external web service with an appropriate web method.

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Creating a new data item for a template with a Data type of Web Service Call, and configure it to return data from your chosen web service.

The External Web Services Administration page lists the connections defined in Workflow Manager to external web services. You can view this page by clicking External Web Services in the Administration menu in the navigation bar.

External Web Services Administration Page

On the External Web Services Administration page, you can update or delete an existing web service connection or create a new web service connection.

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Creating a New Web Service Connection

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Viewing or Changing an Existing Web Service Connection

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Defining a Web Service Call Element

The External Web Services Administration page displays the following web service connection details:

External Web Services Administration Page

Option

Description

Web service name

A short description of the web service connection.

URL

The location of the web service.

User name

If you provide a specific account name to authenticate with the web service, that account name appears here. Otherwise, this field is blank.

Domain

If you provide a specific account name to authenticate with the web service, the domain associated with that account name appears here. Otherwise, this field is blank.

Authentication type

The type of authentication that will be used to connect to the web service. One of:

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Anonymous—All calls to the web service will be made anonymously.

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Logged in user credentials—The details of the person currently logged in to Workflow Manager will be provided to the web service.

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Use system account—Use the system account that was specified during post-installation configuration using the AdminStudio Configuration Wizard. For more information, see AdminStudio Configuration Wizard help library at:

http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/adminstudiocw2016/

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Use credentials provided below—A specific account name and password has been provided, and all attempts to connect to the web service will use these details.

External Web Services Administration Page

Workflow Manager 2019 Help Library

August 2019