Hi,

Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP 2003? When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web services - after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more complex ones just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this particular problem as I want to display some data from a web service generated by Biztalk and although I can use InfoPath - which reads the WSDL successfully - to do this I'd ideally like to embed it into a sharepoint site within a webpart.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Ian

Hi Ian,

You're probably venturing beyond the capabilities of FrontPage alone, if
you're talking about creating custom WebParts. If you have any programming
ability, this is certainly doable. WebParts (and SharePoint) are powered by
ASP.Net, and in fact, inherit classes in the CLR which fall under the
System.Web.UI. Control namespace. To find out more, and/or download the
SharePoint SDK, visit:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...mlwebparts.asp

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5346E19B-A904-4370-9EB0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP 2003?
When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web services -
after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more complex ones
just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this particular problem
as I want to display some data from a web service generated by Biztalk and
although I can use InfoPath - which reads the WSDL successfully - to do this
I'd ideally like to embed it into a sharepoint site within a webpart.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Ian

Hi Ian,

Can you verify that simple queries from the same service are behaving
correctly? This should work out of the box, and the parameters should
ALWAYS be displayed in FrontPage if they exist in the WSDL.

Is this an internet facing WSDL that I can ping? I'd love to test this to
see if we do have a bug in our ability to parse complex Web Services.
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Thanks!
John Jansen
Microsoft Office FrontPage
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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5346E19B-A904-4370-9EB0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP 2003?
> When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web
> services - after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more
> complex ones just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this
> particular problem as I want to display some data from a web service
> generated by Biztalk and although I can use InfoPath - which reads the
> WSDL successfully - to do this I'd ideally like to embed it into a
> sharepoint site within a webpart.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Ian

Oops. I replied before I saw this Kevin, but for clarity:

What he is doing is supported out of the box with FrontPage, so he should
definitely not have to create any custom web parts for this.

--
Thanks!
John Jansen
Microsoft Office FrontPage
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Kevin Spencer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi Ian,
>
> You're probably venturing beyond the capabilities of FrontPage alone, if
> you're talking about creating custom WebParts. If you have any programming
> ability, this is certainly doable. WebParts (and SharePoint) are powered
> by
> ASP.Net, and in fact, inherit classes in the CLR which fall under the
> System.Web.UI. Control namespace. To find out more, and/or download the
> SharePoint SDK, visit:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...mlwebparts.asp
>
> --
> HTH,
> Kevin Spencer
> .Net Developer
> Microsoft MVP
> Big things are made up
> of lots of little things.
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:5346E19B-A904-4370-9EB0-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP 2003?
> When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web
> services -
> after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more complex ones
> just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this particular problem
> as I want to display some data from a web service generated by Biztalk and
> although I can use InfoPath - which reads the WSDL successfully - to do
> this
> I'd ideally like to embed it into a sharepoint site within a webpart.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help!
>>
>> Ian
>
>

John,

I can confirm that the sample (using Amazon) works OK on my setup but I can't get FrontPage to parse anything that's exposed from Biztalk orchestrations. Given that I've only been doing some simple test stuff thus far I could send you the WSDL to try if that would help. I've seen the same problem using some other WSDL that is straight .Net that was supplied to me by a partner (although I wouldn't be able to send that to you, unfortunately).

I'd be grateful if you could have a look at this as I have seen some other similar posts with people having trouble with a FP-BT combination and you may be able to point me in the right direction and rescue my proposed project architecture !

Thanks

Ian

"John Jansen (MSFT)" wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Can you verify that simple queries from the same service are behaving
> correctly? This should work out of the box, and the parameters should
> ALWAYS be displayed in FrontPage if they exist in the WSDL.
>
> Is this an internet facing WSDL that I can ping? I'd love to test this to
> see if we do have a bug in our ability to parse complex Web Services.
> --
> Thanks!
> John Jansen
> Microsoft Office FrontPage
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:5346E19B-A904-4370-9EB0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP 2003?
> > When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web
> > services - after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more
> > complex ones just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this
> > particular problem as I want to display some data from a web service
> > generated by Biztalk and although I can use InfoPath - which reads the
> > WSDL successfully - to do this I'd ideally like to embed it into a
> > sharepoint site within a webpart.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help!
> >
> > Ian
>
>
>

Thanks John. I wasn't sure exactly what he was saying. Probably should have
asked for clarification.

--
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

"John Jansen (MSFT)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Oops. I replied before I saw this Kevin, but for clarity:
>
> What he is doing is supported out of the box with FrontPage, so he should
> definitely not have to create any custom web parts for this.
>
> --
> Thanks!
> John Jansen
> Microsoft Office FrontPage
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> "Kevin Spencer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi Ian,
> >
> > You're probably venturing beyond the capabilities of FrontPage alone, if
> > you're talking about creating custom WebParts. If you have any
programming
> > ability, this is certainly doable. WebParts (and SharePoint) are powered
> > by
> > ASP.Net, and in fact, inherit classes in the CLR which fall under the
> > System.Web.UI. Control namespace. To find out more, and/or download the
> > SharePoint SDK, visit:
> >
> >
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...mlwebparts.asp
> >
> > --
> > HTH,
> > Kevin Spencer
> > .Net Developer
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Big things are made up
> > of lots of little things.
> >
> > <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:5346E19B-A904-4370-9EB0-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me how to get complex web services to work with FP
2003?
> > When I use the data wizard I can see the parameters of simple web
> > services -
> > after it's scanned the WSDL - without any problems but more complex ones
> > just don't show any parameters at all. I'm having this particular
problem
> > as I want to display some data from a web service generated by Biztalk
and
> > although I can use InfoPath - which reads the WSDL successfully - to do
> > this
> > I'd ideally like to embed it into a sharepoint site within a webpart.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for any help!
> >>
> >> Ian
> >
> >
>
>