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Defining User Properties for the Virtual Business Component

The user properties required by the NREC Renovations VBC are Service Name and Service Parameters. The Service Name user property defines which business service the VBC will invoke. The Service Parameters define the parameters that are passed into the business service upon initialization. In this example, the parameters are defined in the script attached to the business service. See the Pal_Init function in the Code Sample.

To define virtual business component user properties

  1. Select the NREC Renovations VBC business component.
  2. In the Object Explorer, select the Business Component User Properties object type (child of business component).
  3. Add the following user properties records.

    4. User Property Name
    Value
    Comments
    Service Name
    NREC External Text Handler
    Name of the business service.
    Service Parameter
    D:\NREC\nrec.txt;3;House_ID,Date,Description
    The script for the current example specifies the service parameters as the full path to the file name, number of columns, and column names. The parameters must be separated by semicolons, and there can be no spaces in the comma delimited strings. Service parameters will vary depending on the business service being used.


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 Published: 18 April 2003