Setting Access for Web Service Clients

Jive SBS exposes much of its functionality as web services. Through a web service client, other applications can interact with Jive SBS. In order for this to happen, you'll need to first enable one or more of the web service styles that Jive SBS supports.

Admin Console: System > Settings > Web Services

Settings

You can enable client access for the following kinds of web services:

SOAP web services provide access for clients using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
REST web services provide access for clients using Representational State Transfer (REST).
iPhone web services access is needed to support people who are using the Jive iPhone application to reach the community.
Bridges web services access lets other Jive SBS communities create bridges to the current one. (For more on bridging, see Connecting Communities with Bridges.)

You can set who will be able to access the community via web services. To restrict access to specific groups, for example, click Specific Groups, then type the names of user groups in the box provided, using commas to separate the group names. (For more on user accounts and groups, see Managing User Accounts and User Groups.)

Select Force SSL to require that all web services clients use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) when connecting with your community. Note that the Force SSL setting governs access from bridge web services.

Select Force iPhone SSL to require that iPhone clients use SSL. Note that f you'll be using SSL to secure iPhone access, your certificate must be valid. For example, it must be created by a trusted authority such as Verisign, rather than self-created.

Note: Although requests from the Jive Desktop Office add-in and Social Media Console can be filtered based on request URL (as described in Configuration Support for External Client Access), those web services can't be disabled or enabled from the admin console.