What is the different between Dynamic Web Services, Web Service and WS Inbound Activities ?

What is... This is a short answer and question category.Web Service

To invoke a Web service, you must have a Web Services Description Language(WSDL) document that provides the necessary information for accessing the service. The custom parameters for Web Service activities identify the WSDL document and the XML content to send to the service. They also specify how to handle the response from the Web service.

Web Service
Activity Inspector – Web Service Properties

Web Services activities differ from the other integration activities in two key ways:

  • The content that you send to the Web service must be a well-formed XML file that is namespace self-sufficient.
  • Web services respond to messages sent to them, so the activity needs to be able to handle a response.

WS Inbound Step / Initiate

Web Service Inbound creates a new web services end-point for an activity that needs to provide an integration point and a WSDL to an external system.

In the Process First option, you define the port and operation and the system creates a WSDL from the process definition. The system creates one WSDL for a process, with a section for each Web Service Inbound activity contained within it. The Content Based Correlation enable the system to correlate messages based on the correlations set.

Web Services Inbound Step
Activity Inspector – inbound Properties

In the WSDL First option, you specify an existing WSDL for the system to use in the process.

The WS Security UserName Token authentication provides credential-based access to the activity or process (when used in an initiate activity). Once enabled, all client requests to this activity must contain the same credentials in the request header (in structure defined by WS-Security schema for UserTokens) to be granted access to the activity or process.

The Message Transmission and Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) enable the system to optimize any attachments while sending the response.

Dynamic Web Services

Activities based on this template run a web service operation. Unlike the Web Service template, this activity template enables you to interactively map data between business process attributes and the web services parameters. This activity template supports both secure and non-secure web services.
Non-secure web activities: WSDL File
Dynamic Web Services
Activity Inspector – Web Service Configuration Properties
Secure web activities:

  • HTTP proxy support
    To access a web service that is located outside the firewall, through a HTTP proxy server, you must configure the HTTP proxy parameters.
  • HTTP basic authentication
    web service protected by HTTP authentication
  • SOAP header-based authentication
    web service protected by SOAP header authentication
  • Secure Socket Layer authentication
    web service that is secured by Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
  • DFS (Documentum Foundation Services) services from Process Builder

 

 

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2012-09-06Permalink

What is a drill-down report?

Drill-down is used for navigation in hierarchically organized data (OLAP). Drill-down describes an increasing granularity in the management of data. E. g., one can zoom into an address. The process of zooming out (decreasing granularity) is called roll-up or drill-up. The drill-down’s increasing granularity is shown with the help of an address example that develops from the country (low granularity) to the real address (high granularity).The drill-up or roll-up is the opposite of a drill-down. It makes use of a decreasing granularity showing things more globally.

Following the items in the picture from top to down you can see the increasing granularity of the drill-down whereas the down to top direction shows the decreasing granularity of a roll-up / drill-up.

Documentum differentiates between two kinds of drill-down reports:
Single Drill-down Multi Drill-down
relation between a base report and a target report: base report is updated based on target report Link a base report to other reports: relation results in an updateBut one of the surrounding dashlets not one of the contents of the base report (E20-120 exam)
Built in one phase:
use Process Reporting Services to implement relation between base and target		 Built in two phases:
1. use PRS to build the hyperlinks
2. use Task Space dashboard manager to implement the connection between the dashboards to be updated and the source

Single- and multi drill-down reports are configured with a source (base) report and a target report. It is best practice to design the target report first, so that it is available on picklists when the source (base) report is designed.

Relevant products: Business Activity Monitor , Process Reporting Service

2012-08-29Permalink

What is the Document Image Services?

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Explanation:With the Documentum Document Image Services (DIS) imaging-related documents and pictures can be viewed in the Taskspace or Webtop application without opening external programs. DIS provides some third-party viewers like IGC Brava! or Daeja ViewOne Pro for viewing, annotating and streaming content.

Function: The Documentum Document Image Services is an image and document viewing framework and available for all WDK Image viewer control applications (eg. Taskspace).
DIS was released for Documentum 6 and is available for Documentum 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7 and will be part of the Documentum 7 applications.

Viewer IGC Brava!Daeja ViewOne ProDocumentum PAS *
Adobe ReaderHigh
Fidelity
Forms
* excerpt* excerpt* PDF annotation services
Major File
Formats		BMP, TIF, PDF, JPG, GIF, TXT,
DWG ... *		BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PDF, PNG, TIFF, TXT, MSG ... *PDF onlyPDF and
irm-pdf for Information Rights Management (IRM)		High fidelity form templates by openoffice
AnnotationsSupportedSupportedSupportedNot currently supported
Documentum 6.7		Not currently supported
Documentum 6.7
Outbound Page Serving
(TIFF/PDF)		Page Serving
(TIFF/PDF)		noneByte streaming (PDF)none
DeploymentServer side
deployment		Server side
deployment		Client side
deployment		Client side
deployment		Server side
deployment
StreamingPage-level retrieval
Page serving
Page modifications		Page-level retrieval
Page serving
Page modifications		noneByte streamingnone

The Brava and Daeja viewers provide similar page access functionality, in which the viewer may be able to display the first page of a document before the entire document has been downloaded from the server. The page serving functionality built into ACS and BOCS using page aware plug-ins. ACS and BOCS can split a multi-page file into individual pages and serve them back to the viewer if the viewer requests it (only available for PDF and TIFF).
The page modifications functionality built into DIS and TaskSpace is used for document merging and page modifications such as deleting, inserting, splitting, and reordering pages in a multiple page document.

Relevant products: TaskSpace, BOCS, ACS

 

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2012-08-28Permalink

What is the server step size?

 

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Explanation: The server step size is a numeric value in seconds. It displays how often information from the audit trail table will be transferred into the BAM database.

Function: The numeric value is the period how often the event pipe job runs. You can increase the step size on high volume environments.
Please keep in mind: the server step size and the data transfer latency are asynchronous but dependent entities. On high volume environment increase the latency and the job runs less frequently. The job takes longer and the data size of each transaction is larger. Do not increase the step size to much, because the data size and data volume could have negative effects to the system performance.

Relevant products: Business Activity Monitor, Content Server, xCP, Process Engine

additional information: Data transfer latency

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2012-08-27Permalink