Service call request handling features

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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