SendRequest/Notification

You can use the SendRequest/Notification activity 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 activity.

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

In the General tab, you can establish a connection to a TIBCO BusinessConnect server.

The following table lists the configurations in the General tab of the SendRequest/Notification activity:

Field Module Property? Description
Name No Specify the name to be displayed as the label for the activity in the process.
Server Details Yes Specify the BC Connection shared resource used to connect to the TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
Operation Name Yes Specify the pre-configured operations that are available for the protocol associated with the server configuration.
Parse XML Payload No Select this check box to parse and validate the document in sent messages.
  • 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 does not need to be processed or parsed immediately in the TIBCO BusinessConnect activity.

Generate Transaction ID No Select this check box to generate the transaction ID regardless of what is provided for the transactionID input item.
Don’t Wait for Response No Select this check box to make the activity not wait for a response from the TIBCO BusinessConnect server.
Response Wait Time No Specify the exact time for the activity to wait for a response, expressed in milliseconds.

This field is displayed only when you clear the Don’t Wait for Response check box.

Description

In the Description tab, you can enter a short description for the SendRequest/Notification activity.

Input

The Input tab lists input schema information. The schema that is displayed depends on the input of the operation selected in the General tab for this activity.
Note:
  • In TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6, the message format of all binary type fields now supports xsd:base64Binary(tib:string-to-base64). However, in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5, the format is tib:string-to-base64.
  • This tab is protocol specific. For more information, see the documentation of a specific protocol.

Output

The Output tab lists output schema information.
Note: This tab is protocol specific. For more information, see the documentation of a specific protocol.

Fault

In the Fault tab, you can find the error code and error message of the SendRequest/Notification activity. See Error Codes for more detailed explanation of errors.

The following table lists error schema elements in the Fault tab of the SendRequest/Notification activity:

Error Element Data Type Description
msg String Displays the error message.
msgCode String Displays the error code.