Admin Data

In many scenarios it is essential to keep track of the date, time, and causes of the creation or of the last change of a node instance. Using special determinations that store the information in special attributes, Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF) supports admin data. If you use Business Object Builder (BO Builder) to add a subnode to a node that is affected by one of these determinations, the instances of the subnode are automatically incorporated.

The CUSTOMER_INVOICE business object consists of an ITEM node. As soon as one of its instances is changed or created, the user (who was last to make changes) and the time of change are stored in the ITEM attributes CREATED_BY, CREATION_TIME, CHANGED_BY, and CHANGE_TIME. If a subnode is added to the ITEM node, these attributes are overwritten as soon as one instance of this subnode is created or changed.