Web Services and Numbering

The Web Service action allows you to invoke a specified web service, which is a way to use HTTP to call code that is located on a different machine.

The Web Service action should be used for a third-party web service. When you specify that a web service is to be invoked via Numbering, it is crucial that there is no attempt to either read or update the data being updated in the Save operation that triggered the auto number. Doing so will cause the Web service’s database call to be blocked and will result in a database lock. The database call will then time out, and the web service call will fail.

When you select this action, Vantagepoint displays the Web Service Configuration for Auto Numbering dialog box.