From The Bench

Composite SmartObject basics

As you may have heard SmartObjects can surface practically anything with it's efficient XML engine.  Lustrous screenshots and quicksteps await inside the document attached here.

I walk through utilizing the attached Employee and Department SmartObjects to create a denormalized EmployeeDetail SmartObject.  This demonstrates the interfaces and steps you will follow when plugging into Oracle, SalesForce, AD, Sharepoint etc. Service Objects to create your own Composite SmartObject collections that will provide your enterprise with an easy to administer and audit application data layer.

NOTE: THE MOST COMMON MISTAKE I'VE SEEN IN COMPOSITE SMARTOBJECT CREATION IS MIXING SERVICE METHODS, IF YOU ARE USING A GETLIST IN YOUR FIRST SERVICE METHOD, RELATED SERVICE METHODS ALSO NEED TO BE OF THE GETLIST TYPE, USE A LOAD WITH A GETLIST AND YOU WILL FAIL (AT LEAST AS OF 0807 PATCH 330)

Published Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:55 PM by Joseph