Walkthrough: Create Managed Endpoint
K2 SmartObject Services allows access to SmartObjects via WCF endpoints. Please refer to K2 for SharePoint - K2 SmartObject Service Management for more information.
SharePoint Designer is not able to work correctly with a WCF endpoint that contains multiple service contracts. Therefore, we must configure a static endpoint for each SmartObject we wish to consume via BCS. SmartObject Services configuration makes this easy via the <managedEndpoints><static> section in K2HostServer.config. The example below will generate a static endpoint for the sample K2 Employee SmartObject.
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| <smoServices enableEndpoints="true" enableEvents="true" enableCrossDomainPolicy="false" scheme="http" server="k2.denallix.com" port="8888" serviceRoot="SmartObjectServices" specialCharacterReplacement="_" enableMetadata="true"> <wcf binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="wsHttpBinding+Windows" /> <rest binding="webHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="webHttpBinding+Windows" /> <managedEndpoints> <excluded all="true" /> <static> <endpoints> <endpoint categoryPath="K2 Samples" smartobjectName="K2 Employee"/> </endpoints> </static> </managedEndpoints> </smoServices> |
The static endpoint can be seen by navigating to the endpoints.xml page for SmartObject Services. The example endpoints.xml below was generated for the K2 Employee SmartObject.
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| <?xml version="1.0"?> <endpoints> <wcf-endpoints> <endpoint>http://k2.denallix.com:8888/SmartObjectServices/wcf/K2 Samples/K2 Employee</endpoint> </wcf-endpoints> </endpoints> |
The WCF endpoint is what we will use to surface SmartObject data to SharePoint 2010 BCS.
Before we can get started Now that we have a WCF endpoint for our SmartObject, we can surface our data via SharePoint 2010 BCS. However, before we can configure the External Content Type, we must ensure we have a Secure Store Application. See Walkthrough: Create Secure Store Target Application.
