Creating a Content Listener
Content listeners are created in My webMethods.
To create a content listener
1. In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > System-Wide > Content Configurator.
2. Available servers can be selected in the Content Service Platform Server list. The content listeners configured for the selected server appear in the Content Service Platform Listener list, with the most recently created listeners at the top of the list. Click the Listener Name column title to sort the list. If no listeners are configured for the selected server, the list will be empty. To create a new listener, click Add Listener.
3. On the next page, select a content server from the Server Selector list. This is a list of the content service platform server environments you defined as described in Configuring a Content Service
Platform Environment; the listener you are creating applies to content on the selected server. 4. In the Content Service Platform Listener Information panel, type a name and a description of the listener you are creating. For clarity, choose a name that indicates the listener’s intended use or the content it targets. For example, in the description, include the document types you intend the listener to monitor, and the listener actions you plan to implement for them.
5. Click Next.
6. In the Content Hierarchy panel, expand the Content Hierarchy tree view if it is not already expanded. You can limit the number of entries displayed in the tree by typing text in the Filter List field and clicking Go; only document types that contain matching text will be displayed in the tree view.
7. In the tree view, select the check boxes for the content nodes you want the listener to monitor.
8. Specify the index information that will be used to identify the document types you want the listener to monitor:
Index—select the index you want to define for the document type you want to monitor.
Operator—select the operator that you want to apply to the index value (for example, +, >, <).
Important: | If you are specifying a date value, valid operator values are limited to “<“, “>”, “<=”, and “>=”. Selection of any other operator results in an error. |
Value—type the value that you want the selected operator to evaluate against. A calendar control is provided for date values.
Join—select a join type (for example, AND, OR), if you want to add additional criteria for defining the monitored document types.
Add/Remove— click
Add to add another row of index definition information; click
Remove to delete an existing row of index information.
9. In the Monitored Events panel, select any combination of the check boxes to identify the events you want to monitor for the defined document types: Create, Delete, Update, and Deactivate.
10. Click Next.
11. Select an Integration Server from the drop-down list. The selected server is the target environment for the listener; when a monitored event occurs on a defined content object, the event notification is sent to the specified Integration Server.
You can add an Integration Server if it is not available in the list by clicking Add New Integration Server. On the Add New Integration Server dialog box, specify:
Server Name—the name by which the server will be identified in the interface.
Host—the host name of the server.
Port—the
Integration Server port number, usually 5555.
Login—the name of an
Integration Server user account with sufficient privileges to support CSP functionality.
Password—the password for the specified user account.
12. Click Next.
13. On the Content Listener Configuration Summary page, review and verify the configuration you have entered for this listener. If you want to make any changes, click Previous to return to the appropriate page.
14. Click Finish to add the listener to the list of available content listeners. The new listener is added to the top of the list on the Content Service Platform Listeners panel.
