User Guide

28 Chapter 3: Common Tasks

• In Breeze 4.0, the access key for your Breeze account. In Breeze 4.1, you do not need an access

key, but it’s not harmful if you use it.

For information about where to locate your access key, see “Access keys for Macromedia Breeze

hosted (ASP) customers” on page 18 and “Access keys for Macromedia Breeze Enterprise

(licensed) customers” on page 18.

To call a Breeze action in a browser:

Open a browser.

Enter the address of the breeze server in the browser’s address bar. Append the following action

and

accesskey parameters in a query string:

http://breeze.example.com/api/xml?action=action_name&accesskey=access_key

Note: You do not need to append the accesskey parameter in Breeze 4.1.

Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Macintosh).

The action returns its XML results in the browser window. A call to

action-list returns the

following example:

<action>accesskey-exec</action>

<action>accesskey-info</action>

<action>acl-preference-update</action>

<action>action-list</action>

<action>custom-field-update</action>

<action>custom-fields</action>

<action>custom-fields-delete</action>

<action>custom-fields-order-update</action>

...the list of actions continues here...

</actions>

</results>

This is the same XML that returns when you call the action in an application. You can also test

filters in the browser. For more information, see “Testing code in the browser” on page 24.

Integrating Breeze with a directory service

Suppose your organization uses a central repository of user information, such as Lightweight

Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Breeze lets you import or synchronize user information from

such a directory service.

The following procedure describes the steps that your application should follow to perform this

task. This procedure assumes that if the information provided by the directory service doesn’t

match the information provided by the Breeze server, the information from the directory service

is correct and up-to-date.