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Best Practices for Invoking Business Services
Business services allow you to execute predefined or custom actions in a task flow. Some examples of predefined business services include:
You can use Siebel VB or Siebel eScript to define your own custom business services that you can invoke from a task. You can define business services by navigating to Site Map > Administration - Business Service, or by selecting the business service object in Oracle's Siebel Tools. The methods and arguments you define in your business service appear in the picklists in the Arguments list applets for the business service. The main parts of creating Business Service steps for a task are:
- Defining a business service step.
- Defining input arguments for business service steps.
- Defining output arguments for business service steps.
CAUTION: Business services invoked from tasks cannot include browser scripts; they only work with server scripts. A business service with browser scripts will fail if it is executed from a task on the Siebel Server.
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