Theobald Software just released the ECS Web Service Designer (no longer available) for SharePoint 2010/2013 and ECS Core. The designer is part of the product suite ERPConnect Services, a suite which allow you the complete range of data integration between SharePoint and your SAP system.
The ECS Web Service Designer is a fantastic way to visually design and deploy no-code SOAP or OData web services for SharePoint. Each service operation can be designed using a workflow designer (see screenshots). The designer provides a couple of base, flow and SAP-related activities the user can choose from to build it’s operation logic.
The base and flow group of activities consist of the following:
- Check Condition Activity (IfElse)
- Switch Cases Activity
- For Each Activity
- Do While Activity
- Custom Code Activity
- Assign Value Activity
- Add Item (to collection) Activity
The SAP-related group of activities consist of the following:
- Execute Table Activity (reads data from a SAP table)
- Execute Function (execute a SAP BAPI function module)
A key feature of the ECS Web Service Designer is the option to use C# expressions for field/property mappings.
Other feature highlights are:
- One-Click and direct solution deployment on SharePoint servers
- One-Click SharePoint solution generation
- One-Click Visual Studio exporting (the visually designed web service can be exported as VS solution)
For more information about this brand new product, see the Theobald Software product site (no longer available).
