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This procedure enables you to find service groups in Services Registry. The search is based on the service group name and classification groups. If you already know the classification of the service group you are looking for you can browse through it to find the service group.

Service groups are design time entities. Developers of consuming applications can create them in their development environment and can publish them to Services Registry. In Services Registry, service groups represent the service consuming side.

A service group bundles all service calls that are provided by the same logical service provider.

More information: Creating Service Groups, Publishing Service Groups from the SAP NetWeaver Administrator

Prerequisites

The Services Registry is configured: Configuring the Services Registry

Procedure

Searching Service Groups

  1. Call the central Services Registry by using the following address: http://<hostname:<port>/sr_central.

  2. Choose ServiceGroup.

  3. Choose Search.

  4. If you know the name of the service group you are looking for, enter it in Find field.

    If you do not know the exact name of the service group, you can use wildcards to substitute part of the name. The possible wildcards are:

    • Use asterisk (*) when you want to substitute any number of characters.

    • Use question mark (?) when you want to substitute only one character.

    If you use an asterisk only, the search returns all service groups available.

  5. Choose Go.

Browsing Classifications to Find Service Groups

  1. Choose Browse.

  2. Select a classification system.

Result

The system displays all service groups that meet the specified criteria in a table. This table can display a predefined number of results. In case the result of your search is greater than this number you can change the maximum number of displayed results. More information: Configuring Services Registry Search Settings

You can choose a service group and view detailed information about it by choosing the corresponding tab:

  • General contains information such as name and description of the service group.

  • Services References displays a list with all service definitions that are referenced in the service group.

  • In Classifications, you can see a list with all classification systems with which this service group is classified.