Function - Receive Fields

Use this page to add or update the fields received from the service. Open this page using Admin Menu > Function and then navigate to the Receive Fields tab.

Note: Displaying a specific field. Rather than scrolling through each field, you can navigate to a field by clicking on the respective node in the tree on the Main tab. Also note, you can use the Alt+right arrow and Alt+left arrow accelerator keys to quickly display the next and previous entry in the scroll.

Note: You're defining the application service's output fields. On this tab, you define which fields are populated in the XML document that is received from the service. Essentially, these are the service's output fields.

Description of Page

Use Sequence to define the order of the Receive Fields.

Enter a unique Function Field Name and Description for each field received from the service. Feel free to enter Comments to describe the potential values returned from the service.

Turn on Required if the invoker must use the field.

Regardless of the Field Value Source, use XML Population Logic to define the XPath expression used to retrieve the field's value from the XML document received from the service.

Note: Usability suggestion. You retrieve a field's value in an XML document by specifying the appropriate XPath expression for the field. Rather than referring to an XPath manual, the system can create the XPath expression for you. To do this, click the adjacent View XML hyperlink. This will display the XML document used to communicate with the Service defined on the Main page. After the XML document is displayed, click the XPath hyperlink adjacent to the desired field to see how the XPath expression looks. You can then copy / paste this XPath expression into the XML Population Logic Field.