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Defining Content Agents


This section provides you with an overview of the Content Agent component of the Content Broker feature in Siebel eBriefings. Content agents allow you to request information from Siebel eContent Services or other external sources that you would like to integrate with eBriefings.

Understanding Content Agents

Content agents define the authentication, URL, and syntax parameters required to submit requests to an external content source. These are defined using the following three Integration Administration views from the Site Map:

How Business Components Map to Content Agents

Business components refer to content agents when making requests to external content sources. They refer to the content agent using the calculated value of the business component's field.

Figure 4 shows the fields and calculated values for the SI Account External business component. This business component is preconfigured to request data from Siebel eContent Services. Notice that the CompanyNews field contains the calculated value AccountNews.

Figure 4. SI Account External Business Component Field Properties

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In Figure 5, you can see that AccountNews is the same as the Symbolic URL name defined in the Integration Administration > Symbolic URL Administration view. The calculated value of the business component's field matches the name of the symbolic URL. The Symbolic URL Administration view stores the information that the Web Integration Business service uses to build an HTTP request to an external content host.

Figure 5. Relationship Between Business Components and Content Agent

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 Siebel eBriefings Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003