Combine multiple web services with the same SQL query into one

Question

Hello,
I would like to ask a question regarding combine multiple similar web services into one. Can you please tell me if it is possible to combine 4-5 web services into one since they built on the same SQL query with 5 different criterias or condition so that the user can enter any of the 5 criterias to populate the data on the form instead of having 5 different web services?
e.g Query: Select appName, permit#, address, phone, description, type, section, from table where appName = can be 'appName, permit#, address, phone, or description' to populate the rest of the data to the form.
Does any one have ever done some thing like this in Workbench ES? If so please assist. I know it can be easier to build it in Visual Basic, C#, or dot.net but the requirement is to build it in workbench ES.
Thanks in advance,
Han Dao

Answer 1

If you are querying for Name, PhoneNumber, and SSN, and you queried for all people with a phone number that started with 867, you would have a potentially long list of people.  So to keep track of all of the people, we store each record in XML complex elements.  The root node is just any name you want, and the repeating element is the complex element name. 
So using the example from above, I'm going to specify the following:
     Root Node: Result
     Repeating Element: Person
So now when I do a query, my resultXML will look like:
<Result>
      <Person>
             <Name>Alex</Name>
             <PhoneNumber>867-5309</PhoneNumber>
             <SSN>111-11-1111</SSN>
      </Person>
</Result>
If your query returned multiple results (like ours would probably), it would look like:
<Result>
      <Person>
             <Name>Alex</Name>
             <PhoneNumber>867-5309</PhoneNumber>
             <SSN>111-11-1111</SSN>
      </Person>
      <Person>
             <Name>Han</Name>
             <PhoneNumber>867-2169</PhoneNumber>
             <SSN>222-22-2222</SSN>
      </Person>
</Result>
So Result and Person is just to give a little bit of structure to the xml result (containers really).  So you can name them whatever is helpful for you.
The column name mappings map the query columns (Name, PhoneNumber, SSN) to some node in the XML (Name, PhoneNumber, SSN).  So you don't need to specify which field maps to what in the form.  Just copy the column names to the element name so you have a 1-to-1 naming.  If you want to manipulate the XML a bit though, you could do:
Column Name               Element
Name                            YourName
PhoneNumber                Phone
SSN                              Secret
which would then make your xml look like:
<Result>
      <Person>
             <YourName>Alex</YourName>
             <Phone>867-5309</Phone>
             <Secret>111-11-1111</Secret>
      </Person>
</Result>
It lets you change the XML element names to whatever you want. Otherwise by default they take on their column names.
In your form, you could bind to the WSDL through the Data Connections pane and point it to your web service.  This will then create form elements that you can just drag and drop allowing you to have the information available when the service gets ran.  Once the service is called, you can modify the field's data to get whatever information you need in order to populate other form fields. 
If that is too confusing, feel free to send me your form (e-mail is on profile page) and I'll add comments to it to show you how to set up the form for the web service call (and also give me the link to your webservice)