The call web service action allows a user to call a method exposed via a WCF web service.
Features of this Action
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Supports composite data types including arrays of nested composite data types
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Allows the user to decide whether the task list execution should be broken if there was an issue calling the service method.
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If the service metadata contains the information about the types of faults the service method can generate – you can map keywords/properties to the fault information
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Supports mapping to system keywords such as document date, entry to queue date etc…
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Supports the following .NET primitive data types and their nullable data types:
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System.Boolean, System.Byte, System.Char, System.DateTime, System.Decimal, System.Double, System.Int16, System.Int32, System.Int64, System.SByte, System.Single, System.String. System.UInt16, System.UInt32, System.UInt64
Note:Nullable data types will be converted to their non-nullable data type before being added to the property bag.
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Supports mapping to constant values containing tokens such as %K, %D etc…
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Supports mapping to constant values containing arrays
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Allows the user to test that the application server can successfully call the service from within the actions configuration
Limitations of this Action
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Does not support the Data Set data type.
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Does not allow mapping to the InnerText or InnerXml properties of the System.Xml.XmlAttribute data type. This limits the user to specifying a single value for a SOAP header.
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Only supports Windows Authentication.
Configuring this Action
To configure this action: