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Definition

An interface to replicate business attribute assignments from a source system or file to a target system.

Business Context and Use

This web service is used to create new business attribute assignments and modify existing business attribute assignments.

Prerequisites

Existence of required master data and related business documents in the system, like:

• Master data of BusinessPartner: Employee , Customer, Contact, Individual Customer or Product master data

• Business attributes and attribute sets

Structure

The Business Attribute Assignment node element contains information of the object to which the attribute , attribute set and corresponding value should be assigned.

The data for this node is related to the marketing attribute facet in Customer or Contact UI.

AssignedObjectTypeCode

The AssignedObjectTypeCode specifies the master data object to which the attribute set, attribute and attribute value can be assigned.

e.g. 147 for Business Partner objects like Account, Contact, Individual Customer.

AssignedObjectUUID

The AssignedObjectUUID specifies the unique identifier of the master data object to which the attribute set, attribute and attribute value can be assigned.

e.g. BusinessPartner UUID

UUID

The UUID is a unique identifier of the attribute assignment. In creation case, it is automatically generated by the system. In update or deletion case, the UUID must be provided.

Item

The Item allows the linkage of the attribute , attribute set and attribute value to the object defined in the root node. Attribute ID and Attribute Set ID should be existing in the system. Attribute Value specifies the value of the attribute when linked to the master data object. The attribute value should be based on the attribute definition.

Constraints and Integrity Conditions

General Rules for Using this Web Service

Check Maintain Bundle vs. Maintain Bundle

Maintain Bundle operations enable external applications to create and change business document data. Check Maintain Bundle operations enable external applications to simulate maintain bundle requests without changing business document data. In particular, Check Maintain Bundle operations have the following functions:

• Return system messages similar to corresponding maintain bundle operations

• Provide the same message type as the corresponding operation Maintain Bundle

• Do not assign internal numbers from a productive number range interval (number range statuses are not increased)

• Do not change business documents

Action Code

Action codes represent an instruction to the recipient of the web service request to process transmitted message node elements.

Action Code	Description
01	Create; the system returns an error message if the node element already exists.
02	Update; the system returns an error message if the node element does not exist.
03	Delete; the system returns an error message if the node element does not exist.
04	Save; the system creates or changes the node element data.
05	Remove; the system deletes the node element. If the node element does not exist, the system does not send an error message.
06	No Action; the system does not change the node element.

Default action code: 04 (Save).

Note: Action code 04 (Save) creates business documents if the system can not identify a matching target business document. This applies in particular if no business document ID or UUID is provided by the web service consumer. The web service consumer (external application) is responsible for providing correct business document IDs or UUIDs. This will avoid accidentially creating duplicate business documents.

List Processing

The processing of node elements with cardinality > 1 (for example a list of descriptions in different languages or a list of telephone numbers) can be controlled using List Complete Transmission Indicators (LCTI). The LCTI indicates whether a list of node elements is transmitted completely. The LCTI of a node element with cardinality > 1 is modeled as an attribute of its parent node element (attribute name: <name of child element>ListCompleteTransmissionIndicator).

LCTI	Description
false	The list of node elements is not completely transmitted. Hence, all node elements that are not transmitted remain unchanged. If transmitted node elements in the list can be uniquely identified, the system processes the node elements according to the action code. If transmitted node elements in the list cannot be uniquely identified, the system appends the node element to the corresponding list of node elements in the target business document.
true	The list of elements is completely transmitted. Hence, all node elements that are not transmitted are deleted. If no node element is transmitted, all the node elements in the system will be removed.

Default list complete transmission indicator: false.

Note: The LCTI refers to the completeness of the list of node elements and does not imply completeness of sub-elements.

Empty and Missing Elements

Optional leaf elements in request messages that are not transmitted within a web service request are not changed in corresponding business documents.

Communication Timeout

Maintain bundle and check maintain bundle operations are mass-enabled stateless synchronous web service operations. Transferring or requesting amounts of data that are too large causes communication timeouts. The web service consumer is responsible for ensuring reasonable sizes of data for mass operations.

Message Header

Maintain bundle and check maintain bundle operations support exactly one execution (idem potency). To ensure exactly one execution of web service requests, the web service consumer has to provide unique values for the elements ID or UUID of the BasicMessageHeader node element.

Change State ID

Using change state identifier (element name ChangeStateID), external applications can ensure that a modifying operation is not executed because the state of the business document has changed since the external application last read its data.

The change state ID is an uninterpretable string that is provided by query and read operations and can be utilized by all modifying operations. If the change state identifier is provided when calling a modifying operation, the system does not perform the operation if the state of the business document instance has changed since the change state ID was computed. If the change state ID is not provided by the web service consumer, the system performs the web service operation without checking the state of the business document.

The web service consumer (external application) is responsible for preventing accidental changes to business documents.

Note: For this web service the change state ID does not apply to the ContactPerson, Relationship, CommunicationArrangement, DirectResponsibility, SalesArrangement, or PaymentData node elements.

Object Node Sender Technical Identifier

Request node elements with cardinality > 1 contain an object node sender technical identifier to relate response message elements and log items to corresponding node elements in the request message.

The object node sender technical identifiers are provided as ObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID in request message types and referred to as ReferenceObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID in corresponding response message types.

If the object node sender technical ID is initial, the object node sender technical ID of the parent node element in the request is returned as the reference object node sender technical ID. If the object node sender technical IDs of all parent node elements are initial, the reference object node sender technical ID is returned as initial as well.

Note: The values specified in the ObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID are transient values that establish the correspondence between elements for only a single call. The web service consumer is not required to specify them or to use the same values for different calls. Also, the service provider does not interpret these values at all. Instead, the service provider returns them to the web service consumer in the ReferenceObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID elements.

Note: The ObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID is also used to identify failed business document modifications in a mass operation.

Example

Request:

 

<Child>
    <ObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID>999_A<ObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID>
    <Content>Child A: Some correct content</Content>
</Child>
<Child>
    <ObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID>999_B<ObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID>
    <Content>Child B: Some erroneous content</Content>
</Child>

Response:

 
<Log>
    <Item>
        <ReferenceObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID>999_B </ReferenceObjectNodeSenderTechnicalID>
        <Note>Error message for Child B</Note>
    </Item>
</Log>

Response Message

The structure of the response message consists of two parts:

• A business document-specific part containing information about IDs and UUIDs of the created and changed business documents

• Log items containing system messages including errors, warnings, and information messages raised by the system during processing of the web service request

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