External Unlock

To remove an external lock from a dock appointment.

Technical Data

Entity Type	Service Operation
Release State	released
Technical Name	DockAppointmentExternalUnlockRequestConfirmation_In
Namespace	http://sap.com/xi/EWM/Global
Application Component	SCM-EWM
Web Service Definition (Back End)	/SCWM/BIF_YRD_DAPP_ULOCK_RC
Direction	inbound
Mode	synchronous
Idempotency	no
Change/Update Behavior	not applicable
P2P Communication Enabled	true

Business Context and Use

The External Unlock inbound operation is a request to the Site Logistics Processing process component to remove an external lock that has been set on a dock appointment by the External Lock operation. Removing an external lock from a dock appointment allows all users to change the dock appointment again in change functions of the back-end system. For more information about the business context, see the External Lock operation.

Note

External UnlockExternal Lock

The External Unlock operation has been designed to remove the purely technical locks that have been set by the External Lock operation. If you want to unlock dock appointments that have been locked using locking mechanisms in your back-end systems, use the unlock functions in your back-end systems.

Features

The External Unlock operation requires the following data as input:

Universal unique identifier (UUID) of the external lock
Yard resource appointment ID of the dock appointment

If successful, the operation returns a log with the dock appointment as output.

Error Handling

Consider the following during error handling:

The system raises an error message if you call the External Unlock operation for a dock appointment that is not locked.
If no dock was found for the yard resource appointment ID, the system returns an error message. Check if the yard resource appointment ID is correct.

Message Types

DockAppointmentExternalUnlockConfirmation_sync
DockAppointmentExternalUnlockRequest_sync