Describes synchronizing to more than one back-end application.
Description
Synchronize a Retail_Item business object
to more than one back-end application by doing one of the following:
- Modify the Process_Reviewed_Item collaboration template to include several
Sync ports or write another custom collaboration template and attach a collaboration
object based on it to a Process_Reviewed_Item collaboration object's Sync
port. A collaboration object based on this custom collaboration template can
pass the Retail_Item business object to multiple output ports (i.e., each
back-end application's connector).
- Connect a Process_Reviewed_Item collaboration object's Sync
port to a collaboration object based on the ItemSync collaboration template.
The Retail_Item business object must be added to the list of supported business
objects for a collaboration object based on this template. The advantage of
using an ItemSync collaboration object is that it provides the base capabilities
to do the following:
- Convert a Create verb to an Update verb if the item currently exists in
the back-end application.
- Convert an Update verb to a Create verb if the item does not exist in
the back-end application (a Process_Reviewed_Item collaboration object provides
only the Create verb).
- Filter the item based on its contents and not synchronize it to the back-end
application.