Designer 10.7 | webMethods Service Development Help | Building Map Services | Creating a Map Service | Creating a Map Service
 
Creating a Map Service
When you create an map service, you must perform the map actions manually.
*To create a map service
1. In Designer: File > New > Map Service.
2. In the New Map Service dialog box, select the folder in which you want to save the map service.
3. In the Element name field, type a name for the map service using any combination of letters, numbers, and/or the underscore character. For information about restricted characters, see About Element Names.
4. If you have a template you want to use to initialize a default set of properties for the service, select if from the Choose template list.
5. Click Finish to create the map service.
6. To perform a map action steps, perform the following in the map service editor:
a. Perform one of the following:
*Click the button next to on the map service editor toolbar and select the map action that you want to perform.
*In the Palette view, select the map action that you want to perform and drag it to the map service editor.
The corresponding map action dialog box appears.
b. Perform one of the following map actions:
Map Action
Description
Set a Value
Assigns a value to the selected variable in the Pipeline In or Pipeline Out stage of map service. For details, see Assigning a Value to a Pipeline Variable.
On the Set a Value dialog box , select the variables to which you want to assign a value and set the values.
Drop a Variable
Drops the selected variable from the Pipeline In or Pipeline Out stage of map service. For details, see Dropping Variables from the Pipeline.
On the Drop a Variable dialog box, select the variable which you want to drop from the pipeline.
Create a Link
Creates a link between the variables defined in the map service. For details, see Creating a Link Between Variables.
On the Create a Link dialog box, select the source and target variables between which you want to create a link.
Create a ForEach
Creates a ForEach mapping between array variables defined in the map service. For details, see Creating a ForEach Mapping.
On the Create a ForEach Mapping dialog box, select the source and target array variables between which you want to create a ForEach mapping.
Add a Transformer
Inserts a service for use as a transformer in the map service. For details, see Inserting a Transformer. Service could be a built in service, previously built flow service, or a map service.
On the Select... dialog box, select the required service to be added as a transformer in the map service.
7. Click OK.
The updated map service appears on the Tree tab.