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It contains a text area (Task comments) that lets you write comments about the task. These
comments are saved when the dialog is closed with the OK button and are displayed in the
Task Comments Pane.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
The tab also provides an option to highlight the task in "The Process area" on page769 with
the default color, set in the Preferences (see "General appearance preferences" on page659),
or the color selected or defined under Highlight color on this tab.
To revert the selected highlight color to the default color, open this tab, turn the Highlight option
off and close the dialog with the OK button; then turn highlighting back on.
Highlighting can also be turned on and off via the task's contextual menu and with the Highlight
button on the View ribbon.
SOAP Client plugin
SOAP Client plugin tasks can be used as Input, Output and Action tasks, although their basic
function is to generate output. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a light protocol that
defines a standard XML format used to communicate among systems across different
architectures, languages, and operating systems.
A SOAP request is an XML-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) sent using the HTTP
transport protocol. The payload of the SOAP packet is an XML document that specifies the call
being made and the parameters being passed.
Web services, a SOAP class of applications, expose their services via the Internet in a manner
that lets other applications access them, as well as use and combine them as required.
In order to access and successfully use Web services, client applications must know how to get
them, what operations they support, what parameters they expect, as well as what they return.
SOAP servers make this information available via WSDL (Web Service Description Language)
files.
To configure a given SOAP Client plugin task in the PlanetPress Workflow Configuration
program, you must first get its WSDL file (note that you cannot download the WSDL file over an
HTTPS connection, so you should use an HTTP connection to get the file and then switch back
to a secure connection). This lets you know which services the SOAP server provides, as well
as each service’s methods and name spaces.
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