EBO Idea Exchange
Have ideas on how to improve the EcoStruxure Building Operation? Please share and get votes from our Community to influence development efforts.
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What are the main changes vs the previous solution :
For a better user experience and usability, files will be organized by “Software packages” related to versions (ex : EBO 2022).
A package now includes all needed items for the installation of a given version:
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In their current implementation, Web Services within StruxureWare Building Operation provide extremely powerful capabilities for initiating Web Service requests against other devices and handling a number of different data formats. Currently, though, other devices can only connect to the AS/ES via EWS for web service interfaces (where the AS or ES provides the "endpoint").
In Continuum, I've known a number of programmers to use web functions to craft custom pages (which could be used to serve data in XML, JSON, or any other format) through PE programs. I'm contributing this idea to see if others would find value in a similar capability in Smart Struxure.
My ideal solution - New Interface-->Web Service options:
Simple XML Serve: a collection of objects within a container object (and potentially subfolders to allow content heirarchy) is served in primitive XML form when a configured URL for the container object is requested of the AS/ES
SOAP Serve: a collection of script functions/programs in a container folder would define SOAP methods available. Based on these functions and their arguments, the system could generate a WSDL file and handle SOAP requests to that container folder's defined endpoint.
Script Serve: a script function/program is specified to handle requests against a specific URL/endpoint. Ideally, GET or POST data would be made available as an input string.
Simple XML Serve and Script Serve would be my highest priorities, but I can also see SOAP Serve providing some cool integration opportunities going forward.
I believe that adding this capability to SmartStruxure would help solidify our objective of providing the ultimate integration platform.
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