The following table details the service call request handling features
supported by the connector.
Category | Feature | Support | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Create | Create verb | Full |
A Create can be performed in several ways. Refer to the User Guide for details. |
Delete | Delete verb | No |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support a physical Delete verb. |
| Logical delete | Partial |
Ariba Buyer only supports logical deletes. The connector requests that Buyer perform its delete (logical) as a result of a Delete verb. There is no field in the interface that can be "updated" to reflect logical deletion, thus the Update verb cannot be used to perform a logical delete in Ariba Buyer. |
Exist | Exist verb | N/A |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support the Exist verb. |
Misc | Attribute names | Full |
|
| Business object names | Full |
|
Retrieve | Retrieve verb | N/A |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support the Retrieve verb. |
RetrieveByContent | Ignore missing child object | N/A |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support RetrieveByContent. |
| Multiple results | N/A |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support RetrieveByContent. |
| RetrieveByContent verb | N/A |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support RetrieveByContent. |
Update | After-image support | Full |
|
| Delta support | Full |
|
| KeepRelations | N/A |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support this feature. |
Verbs | Retrieve verb | N/A |
The Ariba Buyer interface does not support the Retrieve verb. |
| Subverb support | No |
The connector does not reference the verb field of child business objects. It applies the verb specified in the parent business object to all child business objects. |
| Verb stability | Full |
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