Web service
Web services are services that provide functionality and data
via the internet. Similarly to a search engine, queries will be sent
from a sender, which in this case is not a person, rather a software
program. The web service returns the results to the program querying
it. Web services can be provided for use either internally or
externally to the company.
If you'd like to, for example, find the name of a bank based on a
routing code, a web service can determine and return the desired data
using an operation. The operations are described using WSDL (Web
Services Description Language) files. The exchange of information takes
place via an exchange of XML files.
In order to use a web service, the URL with which the web service is
identified must be known. Additionally, special software is required to
interpret the information that is delivered.
With Intrexx, web service provisions can be consumed without requiring additional
programming efforts. Furthermore, you can provide your own web services.
Registering web services
A new web service can by added via the
context menu.
Information about the
context menu functions can be found
here.
You can discover how to configure buttons in applications so that they use
data from the web service
here.
Permissions
For the action
Configure web service, the user
needs to have the portal permission
Manage Intrexx web services and permission to access the
Tools module. In order to edit web service calls,
the permission
Manage Intrexx web services is required.