Data Controls
Use the Data Controls page to manage web service data controls for all portals (if accessed through the Shared Assets page) or for the current portal (if accessed through the Assets page).
You use data controls to connect to and read data from external web services, then present that data on a page in a task flow.
If a data control is hidden after it has already been consumed in a task flow, the usage of the data control will continue to work in that task flow, but the data control will no longer be available in the resource catalog for consumption in other task flows.
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Click to create a web service data control. In the Create New Data Control dialog, specify a name and description for the new data control, and type of data control that you want to create: Web Service. |
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Click to delete the currently selected data control. More |
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Click to open the Upload New Data Control dialog, where you can enter the name of an AAR file to use to import a data control into WebCenter Portal. More The AAR file can be located on the local file system or the file system on a server. |
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Click to open the Download dialog, where you can export the selected data control to an AAR file on your local file system or the file system on a server. More |
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Actions menu |
Click to choose one of the following actions: |
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Copy |
Click to create a copy of the selected data control. More When you create a copy, the copy is initially hidden regardless of the show or hide status of the original data control. |
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Security Settings |
Click to open the Security Settings dialog, where you can grant manage and update permissions to selected users and roles on the selected data control. More |
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Edit Properties |
Click to open the Edit Properties dialog, where you can update the name, description, icon URI, category, and custom attributes of the selected data control. More For shared assets, you can also choose whether or not to expose the data control in the Home portal or other portals. More |
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Show Properties |
Click to open the Show Properties dialog, where you can view information about the selected data control, such as the display name, description, asset ID, metadata file location, creation date, and so on. More |
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Filter |
Enter a full or partial search string then click To clear the current search string and display all data controls, click |
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Click to refresh the list of data controls. |
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Data Controls |
Lists data controls. The |
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Available |
Select to indicate whether the data control is published or not. More
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Modified By |
Displays the user name of the user who last edited the data control and the date and time at which the changes were made. |
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Actions |
Click Edit to edit the data control. More |
Create
Delete
Upload
Download
to refresh the list with all the data controls for which a match is found in the 
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Refresh
icon next to a data control name indicates that the data control is a shared data control that is available for use in the current portal.
) indicates that data control is published and available for others to use.
) indicates that the data control is not yet published. Hidden data controls are not added to the resource catalog and therefore, cannot be added to a task flow. If a data control is hidden after it has already been consumed in a task flow, the usage of the data control will continue to work in that task flow, but the data control will no longer be available in the resource catalog for consumption in other task flows.