To creat a Web Service

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Hi,

I am new to wM, I need to create a web Service which takes Object as parameter and in Internet Explorer opens that object into PDF.

Till now , I am able to send an email to user, which contains pdf as an attachment, but what I am required is to send an email to user which contains a URL in mail body and on click of this URL PDF is open in IE.
My requirement is as follows:

  1. A Flow service that sends a mail to user.
  2. In mail body of this flow service there is a URL
  3. When user clicks this URL, it opens a PDF in Internet Explorer.

I am planing to achieve this task by

  1. To write a flow service that reads the DB BLOB object converts that into MIME object and pass as input parameter to SOAP.
    Please guide me how to achieve this

Thanks,
agar

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What do you mean by “web service”? Why do you need to create one?

M

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I need to create a service which take XML as an input and then to display it as PDF document. This service will reside in a server, so I think it should be a Web Service, which will be invoked by SOAP default processor, input to this service will be provided by soapRequestData and PDF document will be send as soapRequestData.

I am new to Web Methods. I went through web method guide and came up with this design.

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Agar,

I think you might be a little confused on this topic. Web services do not have user interfaces so they can’t “display” anything.

You can certainly create a web service that will accept some input, perform some work to generate a PDF and then return the PDF as a base64-encoded string.

The consumer of the web service operation would convert the base64-encoded string back into a PDF.

Mark