drajkumar - Friday, March 20, 2009 7:42 PM:
What is a Federated ItemType and when would one use it?
Anonymous - Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:03 PM:
Federated ItemType is really a concept. Using method code you can use a Federated Itemtype to display data from another system in the Aras Innovator gridsa and forms.
The biggest thing is that the Item data does not exist in the Aras Innovator database.
They are used to integrate with other systems like Sharepoint.
dhenning - Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:15 PM:
Chris:
Just seeing the forum entry, and I would have a great application to use a federated ItemType sort of process. We are currently at version 8.1.0. Do you have a short set instructions on how to go about using this? or is it in the documentation some where? I have failed for find references on how to use the federated itemtype - like what you have to put in place to be able to retrieve the data in the right 'event', etc. A quick listing of critical steps may be all I need to get underway.
Thanks.
PeterSchroer - Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:29 PM:
Dennis -
there is a good article on how to do Federation on the new Aras KnowledgeBase wiki at http://www.aras.comhttp://www.aras.com/Community/wikis/kb/how-to-use-federation.aspx The article says 9.1, but the concepts are the same and will work with 8.1
As a Subscriber you also have access to the internal KnowledgeBase which has additional articles and sample code.
Peter
dhenning - Wednesday, April 1, 2009 4:00 PM:
Peter:
Read the wiki you pointed me to....great layout...so i created a regular run-of-the-mill item type (has one property I added: item_number). Created a second item type of type Federated and added 5 properties all of dataype federated. Then made a relationship in the first type to point to the second type. The tab area displays but when I hit the search icon on this tab it displays the column headings for the 'properties' but no data. I have a method in the second data type triggered on event: onGet....but it is not being invoked....I have a log made when it executes, but this method is never getting invoked...so, I missed something in following the plan in the wiki about what needs to be set up..........then if you can solve that, also it would help me to know what is the expected layout of the returned data. I presume it is an Item, but since the second item is a federated item, it doesn't really exist so how do I return an Item with the id, etc. .... do I just return the multiple properties? or a phony <Item> </Item> wrapper around the properties?
-Dennis
