Populating fields programatically

You can set up any field on the Summary tab to populate programmatically based on the values in other fields. To specify that you want a field to populate programmatically, you must specify attribute of type External Datasource.

Once you specify that the attribute type is External Datasource, a Generate button appears next to the field. When a user clicks the Generate button, Unica Marketing Operations accesses a program that you specify. The program can be a web service (located anywhere) or a java program running on the same server as Unica Marketing Operations.

For example, you could call a program that generates a job number based on values entered in the business unit and product fields.

To specify the program, you must include the <servicedetails> tag within the <column> tag. The <servicedetails> tag can contain the following tags.

Tag	Description
type	Enter either javaclass or webservice as the type.
classname	Enter the serverside custom java class in this tag. This custom class must implement the com.unicacorp.common.template.IdGenerate interface. If you specify a value in this tab, you do not need to specify the <methodname> tag.
param	This tag has the following attributes. parameter name type valuecolumn You must define all parameters in the same map file, such as projectatts.product_id. The order that you specify the parameters must match the order that the program expects them.
wsdl	Enter the webservice definition file located on the Plan server or the URL to the file in this tag.
methodname	Enter the webservice method name in this tag. If you specify the <classname> tag, you do not need to specify this tag.