Add the User Input Form 

Use

After testing the iView functionality, you add the input form that enables the user to launch a search for banks in a specific country. The data in the input (search) form will be mapped to the input port of the data service for processing.

 

Procedure

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       1.      In the workspace, drag your mouse from the Input port of the data service, Bank Getlist, as follows:

       2.      Release the mouse, and from the context menu, choose Add Input Form. The input form is added to your model, and a line links the form to the data service.

       3.      Double-click the input form and check the Fields task panel to view the fields – BANK_CTRY and MAX_ROWS –  that are displayed in the input form of the iView. The SUBMIT field indicates the button. The check marks in the first column (under the eyeglasses icon) indicate the fields that are displayed in the input form, to be filled in by the user.

 

       4.      Click the Input port of the Bank Getlist data service.

The check marks in the first column, under the exclamation point (!) indicate that they are fields required as input by the data service, as shown in the Required field of the Data list. In this example, both BANK_CTRY and MAX_ROWS are mandatory fields. In other words, this function requires a bank country, and a value for the number of rows as input in order to return data.

       5.      In the workspace, click the line (submit) connecting the input form and the data service. Using the Fields task panel, you can verify that the BANK_CTRY and MAX_ROWS fields selected for display in the input form have been mapped to the corresponding field in the data service.