Entity details
Entity details (=Entity Type) can be in inspected in IFS Solution Manager, see > System information and Utilities > Entities > Entity.
General info
General info shows if entity
has rowkey activated (for custom attributes)
any custom attributes added to entity
componen to
Views
Information about all views connected to this Entity. When selecting a view, all attributes of that are view are listed in in the same page (browse down).
View can be type of
Base (contains all attributes, only one base view normally only exists per entity),
Alternative (views with different set of entity attributes),
Report (used in operational reports) or
Server (used by IFS, cannot be used in for example in Query Designer).
Packages
List of packages connected to this Entity. By choosing package in the combobox you can get detailed information about each package methods belonging to this Entity. All the package methods are listed in the detail table
APIs
Display information about all the APIs the entity is exposed in. This will show the operations allowed and usage type of an entity on each API. Operations that are allowed can be described as C=Create, R=Read, U=Update, D=Delete, S=State Change.
You will encounter that the same entity is exposed in several other entity sets, each of the having different name.
State values
If the Entity has a state machine, this tab shows the states of the state machine. You can see both the Database value and the Client values.
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