Information Bridge Framework

[Nagraj]

Hi

Iam very new to IBF, I tried one sample on net Iam attaching the one along
with this message can I get some help on this to resolve.

Can I have poiters to simple sample and detailed correct sample

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <Metadata Version="1.0.0.0"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/InformationBridge/2004/Metadata">
- <MetadataScopes xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
- <MetadataScope Name="http://InformationBridge/SayHello"
DisplayName="SayHello" Version="1.0">
- <Entities>
- <Entity Name="Friend" DefaultReferenceSchemaName="FriendSchema"
DefaultViewName="GreetingMessage">
- <Views>
- <View Name="GreetingMessage" SchemaName="GreetingMessageSchema"
IsList="false">
- <MenuItemDefinition MenuType="1">
- <MenuDefinitionOperationInstance OperationName="DefineMenuItemName"
Index="0">
- <TransformationInstances>
<TransformationInstance TransformationName="MenuCaptionCreation" Index="1"
InputOperationIndex="-1001" InputOperationOutputSchemaIndex="1" />
</TransformationInstances>
</MenuDefinitionOperationInstance>
</MenuItemDefinition>
- <ViewLocators>
- <ViewLocator ReferenceSchemaName="FriendSchema">
- <OperationInstance OperationName="GetGreetingMessage" Index="0">
- <TransformationInstances>
<TransformationInstance Index="1" InputOperationIndex="-1001"
InputOperationOutputSchemaIndex="1" />
</TransformationInstances>
</OperationInstance>
</ViewLocator>
</ViewLocators>
- <Actions>
- <Action Name="Display Greeting Message" Type="EnterContext"
IsSequentialExecution="true">
<MenuItemDefinition MenuType="0" />
- <OperationInstances>
<OperationInstance OperationName="QueryMenu" Index="1" />
- <OperationInstance OperationName="ShowAssociations" Index="2">
- <TransformationInstances>
<TransformationInstance Index="1" InputOperationIndex="1"
InputOperationOutputSchemaIndex="1" />
</TransformationInstances>
</OperationInstance>
- <OperationInstance OperationName="ShowRegion" Index="3">
- <TransformationInstances>
<TransformationInstance TransformationName="GreetingMessageTransform"
Index="1" InputOperationIndex="- 1" InputOperationOutputSchemaIndex="1" />
</TransformationInstances>
</OperationInstance>
</OperationInstances>
</Action>
</Actions>
</View>
</Views>
</Entity>
</Entities>
- <Ports>
- <Port xsi:type="PortFileXml" Name="FriendPort" IsCached="false"
AuthenticationTypeValue="Windows" Comments="FriendPort specifies the XML
Schema Definition that should be used to validate the input structure of a
Friend Entity received from an Office Document.">
- <Data>
- <xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
- <xs:element name="Friend">
- <xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="Name" type="xs:string" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
</Data>
</Port>
- <Port xsi:type="PortFileXml" Name="GreetingMessagePort" IsCached="false"
AuthenticationTypeValue="Windows" Comments="GreetingMessagePort provides the
definition of the schema to validate the structure of the view
GreetingMessage returned by the execution of the operation
GetGreetingMessage() on the entity Friend.">
- <Data>
- <xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="Salutation" type="xs:string" />
- <xs:element name="GreetingMessage">
- <xs:complexType>
- <xs:sequence>
<xs:element ref="Salutation" />
<xs:element ref="Name" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="Name" type="xs:string" />
</xs:schema>
</Data>
</Port>
- <Port xsi:type="PortFileXml" Name="GreetingMessageTransformPort"
IsCached="false" AuthenticationTypeValue="Windows">
- <Data>
- <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:iwb="http://schemas.microsoft.com/InformationBridge/2004"
xmlns:ab="urn- GreetingService-Data">
- <xsl:template match="ab:GreetingMessage">
- <iwb:Region iwb:AssociationName="Region3" iwb:Enabled="true"
iwb:EntityName="Friend"
iwb:MetadataScopeName="http://InformationBridge/SayHello">
- <iwb:RegionProperties RegionName="Greet Friend" Caption="Greetings to a
Friend" Description="Greet Friend Page" ShowAs="ExpandedRegion"
TypeName="SayHello.UserInterface.GreetingMessage">
- <xsl:choose>
- <xsl:when test="count(ab:Name) >= 1">
<xsl:copy-of select="/" />
</xsl:when>
- <xsltherwise>
- <ab:GreetingMessage>
<EmptyResult xmlns="">Hello Stranger</EmptyResult>
</ab:GreetingMessage>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</iwb:RegionProperties>
</iwb:Region>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
</Data>
</Port>
<Port xsi:type="PortSoap" Name="GreetingService"
Location="http://localhost/IBFSimpleSolution/SayHello.asmx" IsCached="false"
AuthenticationTypeValue="Windows" Comments="GreetingService port provides the
location of ASP.NET file, in which this service has been implemented." />
- <Port xsi:type="PortFileXml" Name="MenuCaptionCreationInPort"
IsCached="false" AuthenticationTypeValue="None" Comments="Supplies the menu
caption for the IBF task pane.">
- <Data>
- <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:iwb="http://schemas.microsoft.com/InformationBridge/2004"
xmlns:ab="urn- GreetingService-Data">
- <xsl:template match="/">
- <iwb:ViewProperties Description="Default Friend view" ShowAs="MenuItem">
- <xsl:attribute name="Caption">
Greeting Message for
<xsl:value-of select="//@Name" />
</xsl:attribute>
</iwb:ViewProperties>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
</Data>
</Port>
- <Port xsi:type="PortFileXml" Name="MenuCaptionCreationOutPort"
IsCached="false" AuthenticationTypeValue="Windows">
- <Data>
- <s:element name="ViewProperties" type="ViewPropertiesType"
xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
- <s:complexType name="ViewPropertiesType">
- <s:sequence>
<s:any namespace="##any" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" />
</s:sequence>
<s:attribute name="Caption" type="s:string" use="optional" default="" />
<s:attribute name="Description" type="s:string" use="optional" default=""
/>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>
</Data>
</Port>
<Port xsi:type="PortAssembly" Name="UIAssembly"
Location="E:\raj\SayHello.UserInterface\bin\Debug\SayHello.UserInterface.dll"
IsCached="false" AuthenticationTypeValue="None" Comments="UI Developed to
render information retreived from IBF-compatible Web Service." />
</Ports>
- <Operations>
- <Operation xsi:type="OperationTransformationAggregation"
Name="DefineMenuItemName" EntityName="Friend" TimeOut="0">
- <InputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="MenuCaptionCreationOutputSchema" Index="1" />
</InputSchemas>
- <OutputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="MenuCaptionCreationOutputSchema" Index="1" />
</OutputSchemas>
</Operation>
- <Operation xsi:type="OperationSoapRequest" Name="GetGreetingMessage"
EntityName="Friend" TimeOut="0" IsUpdate="false" PortName="GreetingService"
SoapAction="http://InformationBridge/SayHello/GetGreetingMessage"
SoapBodyWrapper="q1:GetGreetingMessage"
xmlns:q1="http://InformationBridge/SayHello">
- <InputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="FriendSchema" Index="1" />
</InputSchemas>
- <OutputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="GreetingMessageSchema" Index="1" />
</OutputSchemas>
</Operation>
- <Operation xsi:type="OperationTransformationAggregation"
Name="MenuDefinitionPassThru" EntityName="Friend" TimeOut="0" Comments="This
operation is used to define the name of the menu displayed in the IBF Task
Pane">
- <InputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</InputSchemas>
- <OutputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</OutputSchemas>
</Operation>
- <Operation xsi:type="OperationQueryMenu" Name="QueryMenu" TimeOut="0"
QueryMenuTypeValue="" MenuType="1">
- <InputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</InputSchemas>
- <OutputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</OutputSchemas>
</Operation>
- <Operation xsi:type="OperationCustom" Name="ShowAssociations" TimeOut="0"
OperationTypeName="MSIBF.UI.ShowAssociations">
- <InputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</InputSchemas>
- <OutputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</OutputSchemas>
</Operation>
- <Operation xsi:type="OperationCustom" Name="ShowRegion" TimeOut="0"
OperationTypeName="MSIBF.UI.ShowRegion" PortName="UIAssembly">
- <InputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</InputSchemas>
- <OutputSchemas>
<SchemaInstance SchemaName="AnySchema" Index="1" />
</OutputSchemas>
</Operation>
</Operations>
- <Transformations>
<Transformation xsi:type="TransformationXsl"
Name="GreetingMessageTransform" InputSchemaName="AnySchema"
OutputSchemaName="AnySchema" PortName="GreetingMessageTransformPort"
ApplyTranslations="false" />
<Transformation xsi:type="TransformationXsl" Name="MenuCaptionCreation"
InputSchemaName="FriendSchema"
OutputSchemaName="MenuCaptionCreationOutputSchema"
PortName="MenuCaptionCreationInPort" ApplyTranslations="false" />
</Transformations>
- <Schemas>
<Schema xsi:type="SchemaString" Name="AnySchema" Comments="A Schema to be
used for operations involving plain String input and output" />
<Schema xsi:type="SchemaXsd" Name="FriendSchema" Comments="FriendSchema is
the schema corresponding to the entity "Friend". Corresponding to this schema
is a class named "Friend" in the WebService. This schema maps directly to the
class "Friend" and is the therefore an XML Representation of the class
structure." PortName="FriendPort" />
<Schema xsi:type="SchemaXsd" Name="GreetingMessageSchema"
PortName="GreetingMessagePort" />
<Schema xsi:type="SchemaXsd" Name="MenuCaptionCreationOutputSchema"
PortName="MenuCaptionCreationOutPort" />
</Schemas>
</MetadataScope>
</MetadataScopes>
- <OperationTypes xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<OperationType Name="MSIBF.UI.ShowAssociations" />
<OperationType Name="MSIBF.UI.ShowRegion" />
</OperationTypes>
- <Timestamp
xmlns:md="http://schemas.microsoft.com/InformationBridge/2004/Metadata"
xmlns:mdd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/InformationBridge/2004/MetadataDesigner/Schema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
- <MetadataScopeTimestamps>
- <MetadataScopeTimestamp
MetadataScopeName="http://InformationBridge/SayHello">
- <EntityTimestamps>
<EntityTimestamp EntityName="Friend"
Timestamp="2005-03-10T12:37:44.6770000+05:30" />
</EntityTimestamps>
</MetadataScopeTimestamp>
</MetadataScopeTimestamps>
</Timestamp>
</Metadata>

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigraj,

You may want to also post in the MS Office Information Bridge
newsgroup (link below).

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Hi

Iam very new to IBF, I tried one sample on net Iam attaching the one along
with this message can I get some help on this to resolve.

Can I have poiters to simple sample and detailed correct sample >>
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LLet us know if this has helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP
*courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends8

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B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
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