Properties of Web Services steps

The Web Services steps provide the functionality of the system functions of the same names. The Properties pane displays the following property information for the selected Web Services step.

Table 1. Web Services step icons and description
Icon	Description
	Invoke step
	Receive step
	Reply step

The following property information is displayed in the Properties pane for the selected Web Services step.

Table 2. Web services step properties
Property	Description
Name	The name of the step. To display the properties of a different step, select it from the list. A symbol indicates steps that are in progress.
Occurrence	How many times this step has executed.
Description	Information about the step provided by the author of the workflow.

Use the tabs in the center of the Properties pane to view other information about the function.

Table 3. Properties pane tabs for the web services step
In the tab...	you can...
General	View the name of the function: Invoke, Receive, or Reply General For Invoke, Receive, and Reply, view the name of the Partner Link and the Operation. For Invoke, view the outgoing parameters (data passed to the invoked Web Service) and incoming parameters (data returned to the step from a Reply function). For Receive, view the operation parameters—required input. For Reply, view the reply message to be passed to the invoking process. Advanced For Invoke and Receive, view any timeout specification and submap to provide processing in the event that the time expires. Faults For Invoke, view the name of the XML data field to hold fault message, and submap to provide processing in the event of a specific fault or other non-specified faults. Correlation Set For Receive, view the name of the parameter that contains the correlation data, and the correlation expression.
Routing	View conditions (if any) for routing to the next steps.