vCO SOAP plugin. Configure VCO as a SOAP host

[horse81]

Hi all,

In my inventory there are no SOAP hosts, not even the VCO itself. I don't know if you have to manually add the localhost or if it is suppsed to be built-in, however I couldn't find how to add the local host. Can anyone point out what are the needed parameters ?

Thanks

[tschoergez]

Hi!

with the Setup-Workflow you can add the server, on which the webservice runs, to your Inventory (to create workflows for its methods later).

This is usually NOT the vCO server itself, but the external system which provides a SOAP-Webservice.

So: What system do you want to call from within workflows?

Regards,

Joerg

[horse81]

My final goal is to be able to call the vCO workflows from external webpages, so i want to expose the vCO workflows and call them from a SOAP client.

[tschoergez · Accepted solution]

Well, for that you don't need the SOAP-Plugin!

vCO itself already provides a SOAP-Webservice, see the documentation "Developing a WebService Client".

See more examples, links and background information on my blog: http://www.vcoportal.de/category/integrate-vco/external-workflow-calls/ and for the Web-Interfaces: http://www.vcoportal.de/category/webviews/

Especially this one explains what you're looking for: http://www.vcoportal.de/2011/05/web-frontends-for-vco/

The SOAP-Plugin is only needed, if your workflows should call other external SOAP-Webservices...

Regards,

Joerg

[horse81]

Thank you Joerg,

this cleared up things. I'm now connecting using the php soap client as suggested here

http://mighty-virtualization.blogspot.com/2011/05/php2vco-how-to-establish-webservice.html

Tommaso