Consume SAP Ariba Service Activity
You can use SAP Ariba to interact with third-party applications and use the REST services to perform operations on SAP Ariba entities. Ariba uses REST API for extracting and manipulating most data entities. The Consume SAP Ariba Service Activity helps you consume the REST entities from TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks.
General
The General tab contains the following fields.
| Field | Module Property? | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Name | No | The name to be displayed as the label for the activity in the process. |
| SAP SaaS Connection | Yes | Click
 to select an SAP SaaS Connection shared resource. The SAP SaaS Connection shared resource establishes connections between the plug-in and the SAP Ariba.
If no matching SAP SaaS Connection shared resources are found, click Create Shared Resource to create one. For more details, see Creating and Configuring the SAP SaaS Connection Resource. |
| SAP Ariba API | No | Click Fetch API to fetch the SAP Ariba APIs that you had previously downloaded from the Schema tab. |
| Service | No | After fetching the SAP Ariba API, select a service. |
| Operation | No | Select the operation. The operation visible depends on the type of the service. It can be one of the following: GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, and DELETE. |
| Select Output Fields | No | This UI element is applicable only in CATALOGCONTENT API and to those services, which has select as one of its attribute in input schema. |
| File Path | Yes | The path of file, which is supposed to send in input payload. This field is visible when a particular API has file as one of the Input. |
Input
The input is generated based on the SAP Ariba API Service and the Operation selected by the user.
The Input tab displays the input schema of the activity as a tree structure. The information in the schema varies based on the fields selected on the General tab. You must enter information as required for the mandatory fields.Output
The Output tab shows the response of the invoked service. The Output tab displays the output schema of the activity as a tree structure. The output is read-only. The information in the schema varies based on the fields selected on the General tab.