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# About the General Tab

About the Applications Platform Connector

The Applications Platform Connector tool allows communication between Applications Platform and King Task Centre. All communication uses XML. You use the Connector to map King Task Centre data to Applications Platform objects and operations — see Supported Objects.

The XML responses received back from Applications Platform can be saved to file, or passed to another King Task Centre tool for further processing. The responses can include details of the object requested, any errors, or the values of any automatically generated ID fields.

You can use the Applications Platform Connector to provide an indirect link from your Applications Platform installation to other systems that King Task Centre is connected to. For example, if you make use of the Web Portal in Applications Platform, and have your CRM system connected to King Task Centre, you can make CRM data available to the Web Portal via the Applications Platform Connector.

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## Adding a New Task Step (cont.)

1. Provide a meaningful Name and Description for this step.

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   If this task instance makes use of two or more Applications Platform Connector steps, ensure the Name used is unique for each individual step.

1. Choose your Data source . This can either be:

|  | No data source — If you don’t make use of a dedicated XML input source, select this option to use King Task Centre variables in place of the XML objects’ fields. These can then be mapped to operational fields — see About the Mapping Tab. For example, you can extract various bits of information from an email and store them in King Task Centre variables. Then, having mapped them to Applications Platform objects and operations, these can be stored in the Applications Platform database for later use.

|  | Task step — The data source can be set to an available King Task Centre XML data source. Only those steps that are capable of natively exposing an XML document at runtime are listed. These may be another Applications Platform Connector step, or a tool, such as Convert Recordset to XML.

|  | Custom schema — An XML schema defines the structure of the parsed XML: what tags are present, and the nesting of the tags. You Define the schema of the XML that will be used as the input data source for this step. The Applications Platform Connector tool uses the industry standard XSD format. Any XML processed by this step must conform to this schema else an error will be reported. If the XSD schema is available, either import it into the Custom Schema Configuration (use the Import XSD/XML File button), or copy and paste it into the configuration box. Click the image to view full size. If the XSD schema is not available, you can import an example of the runtime XML (Import XSD/XML File), or copy and paste it into the configuration box. Use the Parse button to create the schema. Click OK.

|  | Input source variable — As well as defining the schema, you must specify the King Task Centre variable that contains the XML data at runtime.

1. Go to the Connection tab.

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