How to configure a VBC for invoke an EAI Workflow without scripting IN SIEBEL

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Configure a VBC to invoke an EAI Workflow without scripting

16 March 2010 1,884 views 5 Comments

In this artice we will discuss on how to configure a VBC for invoke an EAI WF with a minumun amount of scripting.

An article by Siebel Expert Daniel Rodriguez

This post show how to configure a VBC for invoke an EAI WF with a minumun amount of scripting in siebel.

Steps:

a) Create a VBC based on class “CSSFABCVRec”.

b) Create VBC fields, the Parent Buscomp link and add it into BO.

c) Create an Integration Object based on the VBC created.

Note: this integration object must be contain just one Integration Component based on the VBC created on previous step

d) Create a Business Service based on class “CSSFAExternalService”.

e) Into the BS create a method called “Query”.

f) Into the VBC create the next User Properties:

Name: Value
Outgoing Integration Object Name: Name of the IO previously created
ProcessName: Name of the Workflow Process to be invoked
Service Name: Name of the BS previously created
Enable Caching: N

g) Create an applet based on the VBC. Add this applet to your custom view.

h) If you need to pass arguments to the WF, you can put a little of script into the PreQuery Method of VBC Server Script (for example, set a ProfileAttr)

Hope this workaround helps you.

Discussion is still on , please share your solution and experience with siebel world.

5 Comments »

Joan Martí said:

Your article it’s so interesting in order to enrich my knowledge. Anyway I think that this option needs at least be invoked when a button is pressed. In this way, I don’t know yet Pros instead of using directly:
var WorkFlow = TheApplication().GetService(“Synchronous Server Requests”);
var psChild = TheApplication().NewPropertySet();
var wfw_in = TheApplication().NewPropertySet();
var wfw_out = TheApplication().NewPropertySet();

psChild.SetProperty(“ProcessName”,”wfw_NAME”);
psChild.SetProperty(“Object Id”,Id);
wfw_in.AddChild(psChild);

WorkFlow.InvokeMethod(“SubmitRequest”, wfw_in, wfw_out);
txtError = wfw_out.GetProperty (“Error Code”);

Thanks a lot,
Joan.

# 16 March 2010 at 7:42 pm

Vipo said:

Hi – We are using Siebel 8.0.0.5 SEA (Horizontal) and our requirement is to call External web service from Siebel and populate result in VBC.

How can you do this?

# 29 March 2010 at 8:35 am

Vivek said:

You first need to create a outbound web service in siebel for the external web service, and then you can call this web service using the proxy business service in the script, and pass the inputs/outputs

# 4 April 2010 at 9:59 am

Georges K said:

You will also have to create a VBC User Property to load the proxy bs

Name: Value
Business Service: “Name of the proxy business service”

which in turn would call the outbound web service
from the VBC query method via scripting

# 17 April 2010 at 8:54 pm