Calling external resources in a Business Component

In a Business Component, you can implement services that are associated with a Logical View. To do so, you must declare the Logical View that contains the service request from the client component. Then, you must perform the access to the external resources to check data consistency and the data that must be sent to the client component.

Before you begin

A Business Component must be created in the Server or Server Dialog editor with a Business Component Dialog type.

About this task

A service requires access to several external resources. The external resources are Segments representing a table, a record, a file, and so on. These Segments must be associated with the Logical View that indicates which data must be checked. To implement the access to external resources, you must declare a Logical View and the Segments required for the execution of the service. Moreover, you must indicate the logical and physical characteristics of each Segment.

Procedure

  1. Open the -CS Lines tab of a Server or Server Dialog.
  2. Click the button that corresponds to the external resource that you want to call in the Business Component, or select the corresponding action in the contextual menu. You can call a Segment, Data Element, Server, or Logical View.
  3. Select the called instance.

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