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Configuring Web Services for Purchase Order Credit Checking Applications

Web services are used to direct the inbound and outbound messages to and from:

• The third-party credit checking application
• A demonstration script that can be used to test your integration setup
• A middleware or integration server that will integrate with your fulfillment engine and accounts receivable application

You must make sure that the Web services are correctly configured.

This task is a step in Process of Setting Up Purchase Order Credit Checking Applications.

To configure Web services for purchase order credit checking applications

1. Navigate to the Administration - Web Services screen, and then the Outbound Web Services view.
2. Select the row with External Credit Check in the Name field.
3. Verify that the fields in the Outbound Web Services list match those in the following table.

   Namespace	Name	Status
   http://siebel.com/asi/	External Credit Check	Active

4. In the Service Ports list, click New, and enter the following values in the fields of the new record.

   Field	Comments
   Name	Enter a name for the port.
   Port Type	Enter External Credit Check.
   Transport	Select from the list. If you want to set up testing, for example when you are customizing applets or extending the ASI, then select Local Business Service.
   Address	When you select a transport, the field is populated with a template address. Edit the address according to whether you are sending the data to middleware, the Credit Check application, and so on. If you want to set up testing, then enter Credit Check ASI Test.
   Binding	If a SOAP header is expected by the receiving application, then select SOAP_RPC. If you are using Credit Check ASI Test, then select Property Set.