Complex webservices and FP 2003

[ian.thomas]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP 2003? When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web services - after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more complex ones just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this particular problem as I want to display some data from a web service generated by Biztalk and although I can use InfoPath - which reads the WSDL successfully - to do this I'd ideally like to embed it into a sharepoint site within a webpart.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Ian

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Hi Ian,

You're probably venturing beyond the capabilities of FrontPage alone, if
you're talking about creating custom WebParts. If you have any programming
ability, this is certainly doable. WebParts (and SharePoint) are powered by
ASP.Net, and in fact, inherit classes in the CLR which fall under the
System.Web.UI. Control namespace. To find out more, and/or download the
SharePoint SDK, visit:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/html/tscamlwebparts.asp

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Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP 2003?

When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web services -
after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more complex ones
just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this particular problem
as I want to display some data from a web service generated by Biztalk and
although I can use InfoPath - which reads the WSDL successfully - to do this
I'd ideally like to embed it into a sharepoint site within a webpart.

 

[John Jansen \(MSFT\)]

Hi Ian,

Can you verify that simple queries from the same service are behaving
correctly? This should work out of the box, and the parameters should
ALWAYS be displayed in FrontPage if they exist in the WSDL.

Is this an internet facing WSDL that I can ping? I'd love to test this to
see if we do have a bug in our ability to parse complex Web Services.

 

[John Jansen \(MSFT\)]

Oops. I replied before I saw this Kevin, but for clarity:

What he is doing is supported out of the box with FrontPage, so he should
definitely not have to create any custom web parts for this.

 

[ian.thomas]

John,

I can confirm that the sample (using Amazon) works OK on my setup but I can't get FrontPage to parse anything that's exposed from Biztalk orchestrations. Given that I've only been doing some simple test stuff thus far I could send you the WSDL to try if that would help. I've seen the same problem using some other WSDL that is straight .Net that was supplied to me by a partner (although I wouldn't be able to send that to you, unfortunately).

I'd be grateful if you could have a look at this as I have seen some other similar posts with people having trouble with a FP-BT combination and you may be able to point me in the right direction and rescue my proposed project architecture !

Thanks

Ian

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Thanks John. I wasn't sure exactly what he was saying. Probably should have
asked for clarification.

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Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.