Creating and hooking up scripts

Preliminary information

To create a new script or edit an existing one, go to the module Library and select the tab Scripts. A list of available scripts will be displayed. From this view, you can create a new script, view the script version history, create a copy, or edit an existing artifact.

Illustration 1. Window with a list of scripts and the context menu of one of the artifacts

Creating a script

Script Service is one of the artifact types in the repository. To add a script service, use Eximee Designer and go to the tab Library → Scripts, and then click the button on the right Add script.

Figure 2. Adding scripts

Edit window

The edit window allows you to change the script content, input and output parameters, and run the script on test data:

Figure 3. Script service edit window

Attaching on the application

For a specific component in the panel Properties you need to select Interactions → External data source → Select service, and then choose the name of the given script and assign the appropriate components to the input and output parameters.

Scripts can also be attached as input, output, and page services.

Figure 4. Attaching a script to an application

Redirecting to the script code

After attaching the script, an icon will appear on the right side of the window allowing you to go to the script source code. After clicking the icon, the window with the editor showing the source of this script will open in the current browser tab. You can also right-click the icon and then choose to open the script source code in a new tab or a new browser window.

Figure 5. Context menu of the icon leading to the script source