SendRequest/Notification

The SendRequest/Notification activity can be used to send an outgoing request/reply message or an outgoing notify message to the TIBCO BusinessConnect server.

You can receive the response to the request on the same activity or in a different process instance by using the ReceiveResponse process starter.

The SendRequest/Notification activity publishes messages on the following subjects:

TIBCO Rendezvous subject:
prefix.installation_name.standardID.INITIATOR.REQUEST
JMS subject:
prefix.installation_name.INITIATOR.REQUEST

General

The General tab contains the following fields.

Field	Module Property?	Description
Name	No	The name to appear as the label for the activity.
Server Details	Yes	The BC Connection shared resource used to connect to the TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
Operation Name	Yes	Preconfigured operations that are available for the protocol associated with the server configuration.
Parse XML Payload	No	Check box selected: The document in the sent message is parsed and validated according to the corresponding Schema definition defined for this B2B operation. Check box cleared: The XML document in the message is treated as a String. This is particularly useful in cases where the document need not be processed (parsed) immediately in the TIBCO BusinessConnect activity.
Generate Transaction ID	No	If selected, the transaction ID is generated regardless of what is provided for the `transactionID` input field.
Don’t Wait for Response	No	Specifies that the activity should not wait for a response from the TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
Response Wait Time	No	This field appears only if the Don’t Wait for Response check box is cleared. It lets you specify the exact time to wait for a response in milliseconds.

Description

Provide a short description for the activity.

Input

The Input tab lists input schema information based on the input of the operation selected in the General tab for this activity.

Note:

In ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks version 6, the message format of all binary type fields now supports xsd:base64Binary(tib:string-to-base64), however in AcitveMatrix BusinessWorks version 5, the format is tib:string-to-base64.
This tab is protocol specific. Refer to a specific protocol documentation for more information.

Output

The Output tab lists output schema information.

Note: This tab is protocol specific. Refer to a specific protocol documentation for more information.

Fault

The Fault tab lists the possible exceptions thrown by this activity.

Fault	Thrown when..
msg	The descriptive text provided by this exception object.
msgCode	If the message has a BW message code, it will be mapped to this field.