The generic Site business object represents an application entity that stores information about a logical place at which an object can be installed. A site can have contacts, relationships to customers, and is often used on contracts.
Site is a hierarchical business object that supports relationships to multiple customers. Its RelatedCustomerRef child business object contains references to its associated SoldTo customers (which are accessed through the generic Customer business object) and to its associated subordinate customers or addresses (which are accessed through the generic CustomerPartner business object.
Note: IBM has designed the Customer and CustomerPartner business objects so that their relationship to a Site is always stored in Site. Applications that store the relationship in the customer or address object must be configured to trigger the Site business object when the relationship changes.
Figure 1 illustrates the generic Site business object and its child business objects.
Figure 1. Generic Site business object and its child business objects
The parent Site business object at the top of the hierarchy contains general information about the site, such as its unique identifier, type (such as, a piece of equipment or a physical location), the organizational entities for which views can be maintained for the customer, the customer's name and primary language, identifier of the parent company, status (the attribute used to indicate whether the customer is active or inactive), and the person who created the account in the system.
Site contains the following child business objects:
Child business object | Description | Cardinality |
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CustomerAddress | Contains the address information for the Site. CustomerAddress, which is also contained by the Customer and CustomerPartner business objects, contains PhoneInfo and RoleUsage. Site does not use RoleUsage as a child of CustomerAddress. | 1 |
CustomerProfileData | Contains such marketing data about the Site as its total revenue, number of employees, stock symbol, standards organization, web site address, type of ownership (for example, Public or Private), and industry. | 1 |
CustomerSalesOrderData | Contains such sales and pricing data about the Site as its sales office and sales group, the identifier of the sales person responsible for this Site, the Site group (usually used for business rules or future processing), the price group and identifier of the price list, currency code, and the minimum and maximum order values allowed the Site. This data is often used as the default information on a sales order. | 1 |
CustomerShippingData | Contains such shipping data about the Site as the shipping carrier, preferred delivery option, the number of deliveries allowed for a line item, and flags that indicate whether order line items can be split into multiple shipments, whether the Site allows backorders, and whether incomplete orders can be shipped. | 1 |
Notes | Contains notes for the Site. Examples are Shipping instructions and Billing instructions. | 1 |
PhoneInfo | As a child of CustomerAddress: contains phone information for the Site. | n |
RelatedCustomerRef | Contains references to associated customers and addresses that are linked to the Site. RelatedCustomerRef contains RoleUsage. Note: This object contains only the reference to the associated entity and not the values for the entity. | n |
RoleUsage |
As a child of CustomerAddress: not used by Site As a child of RelatedCustomerRef: contains the Role functions of any SoldTo customers, subordinate customers, or addresses that are associated with the Site. For example, if a subordinate customer functions as more than one role, RoleUsage contains those roles. For more information on Role functions, see Customer Type Categorization and Extension of Types Through Role Functions in the reference page for the Customer business object. |
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The generic Site business object supports the following verbs:
For a listing of the generic Site business object's attributes, use System Manager or Process Designer Express.