SAP Web Services Connector specifications

Hi,
First of all, I have to say that I do not know about web services, so I'm sorry if this question is not clear.
I am implementing Web Services connector for SAP.
I ask the Customer to configure SAP endpoint (I give the documents downloaded from Microsoft Web), but they say that this information is not complete.
They ask me for a "functional specification" for the endpoint indicating what FIM connector send and what FIM connector expected.
Is there information about these specification (besides docs with Connector).
Thanks
JuanCC Technology Specialist

Hi Juan
I have implemented a few of FIM projects with SAP SOA and FIM Web Services Connector.
Well a function specification is just a statement what FIM will do using those web services so it should be straight forward. If you are creating SAP Users and/or assigning Roles to them it should be stated.
As far as what BAPI functions that would be required to do this depends on your scenario. If you could give a brief of what your scenario is i can provide you with a list of BAPI functions in SAP that those guys need to expose as a web service.
The EndPoint needs to be created using SAP Trans Code: SOAManager, and the authentication scheme should be http:basic
The document what Microsoft provides is usually enough for the SAP technical guys.
some of the functions for SAP User are:
BAPI_USER_CREATE
BAPI_USER_CREATE1
BAPI_USER_GETLIST
BAPI_USER_GET_DETAIL
BAPI_USER_EXISTANCE_CHECK
RH_ACTGROUP_INDEX_GET (for getting all the roles in SAP)
Regards Furqan Asghar

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