The topic to which the RulePoint posts the events. Select the topic name that corresponds to the source.

When you configure a marker ID in the source, it demarcates a set of events between the marker_begin and the marker_end event. For more information, see "Markers" in the

RulePoint Administration Guide

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Optional. The unique name-value pairs of static metadata or additional information about this service that becomes part of the event properties.

Do not use a null value for any property. Do not include space in the name of the metadata property. The name-value pairs appear in every event published by this source service.

Format for Property Metadata:

Name=Jane Doe, Age=10

You can also use the semicolon as a separator, such as

Name=Doe ; Age=10

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If you input an entry that contains a delimiter, such as a comma or a semicolon, you must place the entry into a quote. Putting a numeric entry into quotes makes it a string or non numeric. You cannot do math computation with a non numeric entry.

Optional. If the operation returns a result, the type of output that the Web Service expects. The output types include an XML document or the result of the application of an XPath expression that you provide.

The XPath expressions that you provide depend on the Web Service. For example, if you use a Web Service that returns an integer representing elevation, you must provide an XPath expression for each elevation element. The expression then creates key-value pairs from the result and publishes an event.

XPath expressions must start with a slash (/). Do not use functions. For example,