Siebel Unleashed

This business service is quite useful if you are into Siebel EAI. Lot of times we have requirement, to retrieve specific Tag or attribute values from XML hierarchy that we have obtained.

As usual there are always two methods to do everything in Siebel

• Scripting (Quite inefficient and most used)
• Vanilla BS or Vanilla functionalities (Quote efficient and least used)

So, here also you can achieve the above requirement in two ways.

• Scripting i.e. you write a custom business service to parse the XML and retrieve the values and use them.
• FINS Industry XML Query Service: Use this vanilla business service to retrieve the values.

In this post I will tell you step by step procedure to use FINS Industry XML Query Service in a Workflow as I was not able to find out much about it through bookshelf.

In the example below I assume that your workflow has XMLHierarchy Ready to be passed as input in a process property called XMLH. How to get XML Hierarchy is subject to a different post.

• Add a step of type business service in the workflow
• Provide the following input arguments for that step
  Business Service Name: FINS Industry XML Query Service
  Business Service Method: Execute