Web Service User

Purpose: Use the Web Service User screen to work with user names and passwords that identify an integrating system for web service requests. This setup is required.

Note:             Order Broker uses web service users only for web service authentication. Unlike Order Broker user profiles, vendor users, or store associates, web service users do not have authority to any Order Broker screens.

In this topic:

•         Options at this screen

•         Fields at this screen

How to display this screen: Click the edit icon (edit_icon.png) at the Web Service Authorization screen.

Note:             Only users with Web Service Authorization authority can display this screen. See the Role Wizard for more information.

Options at this screen

Option

Procedure

create a web service user for a system to use for web service request authentication

•         Optionally, enter a User name of up to 255 positions. The name can include special (non-alphanumeric) characters and spaces.

•         Click New to open the New Web Service User window. At this window:

•         Enter the User or, optionally, change the entered User.

•         Enter the Password. The Password must:

•         Be 6 positions or longer

•         Not be the same as the User

•         Start with a letter

•         Include at least one number

•         Include a special (non-alphanumeric) character

Note:

•         The password can include spaces.

•         Web service authentication of the password is case-sensitive.

•         Click Save to save the user and password; otherwise, click Cancel.

update a web service user

Click the edit icon (edit_icon00155.png) for a web service user to open the Edit Web Service User window. See create a web service user for a system to use for web service request authentication, above, for user name and password  entry requirements.

delete a web service user

Click the delete icon (delete_icon.png) next to a web service user to delete the user.

search for a web service user

Enter a full or partial User name and click Search to display web service users whose names start with or match your entry.

Fields at this screen

Field

Description

Web Service

The Web Service you selected at the Web Service Authorization screen.

Search field:

User

The name of a user identifying a system sending web service requests. Used for authentication of messages for the web service. Up to 255 positions, and can include special (non-alphanumeric) characters and spaces. To search, enter a full or partial User name and click Search to display web service users whose names start with or match your entry.

Results fields:

User

The name of a user identifying a system sending web service requests. Used for authentication of messages for the web service. Up to 255 positions, and can include special (non-alphanumeric) characters and spaces.

Edit

Click the edit icon (edit_icon00156.png) for a web service user to open the Edit Web Service User window. See create a web service user for a system to use for web service request authentication, above, for user name and password entry requirements.

Delete

Click the delete icon (delete_icon00157.png) next to a web service user to delete the user.

 

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