Event Action Dispatch IDO Request

Note: You can access this form only from the Event Actions form.

Use this form to construct an event action that dispatches an IDO request to execute some action on a system to which the user is not currently connected or logged on.

This IDO request can be, for example, to load a collection, update a collection, or invoke an IDO method on an IDO runtime service at another "enterprise" (for example, one of your customers or vendors who also uses this application) or with another site in your own enterprise.

The Dispatch IDO Request action type opens a session on the remote database server, performs the requested action, and closes the session. If appropriate, this action type also receives any response data from the remote database server and places it in a return variable or return parameter. You can then use the Transform XML action type to parse the return data.

Note: The Dispatch IDO Request action type is similar to the Execute IDO Request action type. The primary difference is that the Dispatch IDO Request performs the IDO request on a remote system; the Execute IDO Request action type performs the IDO request on the system from which it is initiated.

Because the IDO request is to be executed on a configuration outside the system to which the user is connected and logged on, this action type requires:

The URL for the ASP.NET page to the IDO Request Service on the remote utility server
The name of the configuration on the remote utility server that has the IDO you want to execute
A valid user name and password for that configuration
The request itself in correctly formatted XML

For more information about XML requests and responses, see the Integrating IDOs with External Applications guide, available for download from our support site.