Visual Composer - Operation Not Supported

[Former Member]

I have connected a Web Service to the Visual Composer but some operations display with a not suported suffix for example: "getInvoiceList - Not supported" on the Find Data Services panel.

The Define Data Service option hasn't retrieved any metadata. The test data service option gives the message "Portal Request Failed (Got Null Reply)". The System tests OK in the System definition in the Portal. Other operations of the same system work OK

Does anyone know of any constraints around the web service message structures supported, is their a limit to the number of levels to be compatible with 2D UI components?

I have created .NET Web Services for testing. A service based on returning a String works ok, one returning a DataSet give the above error.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Regards

Antony

[former_member193545 · Accepted solution]

Hello Antony

There are limitations as to what kind of data the portal and VC can work with when returning data, for example nested tables are not supported, there should be a note, under the connectors component explaining this.

Jarrod

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply. I have been using single structures and no longer have the error messages. I'll look up the note.

Regards

Antony

[Former Member]

Hello,

We have the same error (Not supported) when displaying methods in Find Data. How do you resolve the problem?

Thank you

[Former Member]

Hi Belen,

The issue hasn't been resolved yet.. I'm curious to know whether it has to do with the known limitation in which only flat (an thus simple) results are being supported.

Regards,

Frodo

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I successfully create some simple models using a web service, however most (if not all) web services I tried can not be used (e.g. http://www.webservicex.bet/country.asmx?WDSL > GetCountries).

When you test the data service you will receive an error message:

"Portal request failed (The character '<' cannot be used in an attribute value, line 1)".

Based on note <a href="https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=01100107900000000342&_EVENT=REDIR&_NNUM=936768&_NLANG=E">Note 936768</a> I now presume it has to with how the data is being returned by the service.

Is this a correct assumption or could something else result in the same type of error? That would be a real pity…

Thanks,

Frodo

[former_member193545]

Hi

I can not get this WS to work (http://www.webservicex.bet/country.asmx?WDSL), the URL seems to be wrong, can you give me the correct URL?

Jarrod Williams

[Former Member]

Hi Jarrod,

I made a typo, sorry. It should be .net:

http://www.webservicex.net/Country.asmx?WSDL

Regards,

Frodo