FLEXNET OPERATIONS SOAP WEB SERVICES GUIDE

FlexNet Operations Web Services Guide

Complex Type: DownloadPackage

Derived By

Restricting anyType

Content Model

Contains elements as defined in the following table.

Component  Type  Occurs  Description 
    1..1   
DownloadPackageID  string  1..1 

Required. Your company's unique identifier for this Product. We recommend that you use this field to facilitate product management between versions, bug fixes, or patches.

Maximum of 100 characters.

Description  string  1..1 

Required. The full name relating to the Product ID. The description may include manufacturer name, version, operating system, encryption level, or language.

Maximum of 255 characters.

Version  string  0..1 

This is the version of the Download Package or software release.

Maximum of 20 characters.

EffectiveDate  date  0..1  Required for create. The date the Download Package is available for download. Accounts have access to the Download Package if the Product's Effective Date occurs within an Entitlement's Effective and Expiration dates on the Line Item for that Download Package.
ExpirationDate  date  0..1  Required for create. If the Expiration Date is in the future the Download Package appears on the versions section. If the Expiration Date is in the past, the Download Package are archived. Accounts have access to the Download Package from the archives section even if the Download Package is expired, provided there is an overlap between the Download Package's Effective and Expiration dates and the Entitlement's Effective and Expiration dates.
ArchiveDate  date  0..1  Once this date has passed the Download Package are archived. Users will still be able to download it if they have access through an overlap with their entitlement dates.
SortGroup  string  0..1 

The Sort Group of the Download Package controls the sorting of Product in FlexNet Operations. The value of this field should include padding to force the desired sorting. If your product follows a release number schema of x.y.z, the release group should be of the form xxx.yyy.zzz. For example version 9.1 would map to a Sort Group of 009.001.000. Version 10.2.3 would map to 010.002.003. The Sort Group could also just apply to the top level release number if desired. Version 10.1.2 could have a sort group of 010 as would version 10 SP2. The second level sort of the product list is the effective date of the product.

Maximum of 20 characters.

ExtendedDescription  string  0..1  The Extended Description. Maximum of 1000 characters.
ExportComplianceClassification  ExportComplianceClassification  0..1  Required for create. See ExportComplianceClassification.
Manufacturer  Manufacturer  0..1  Required for create. See Manufacturer.
ProductLine  ProductLine  0..1  Required for create. See ProductLine.
EndUserLicenseAgreement  Agreement  0..1  See Agreement.
EvaluationEndUserLicenseAgreement  Agreement  0..1  See Agreement.
DownloadPackageNote  string  0..1  Instructions to End User for this package.
PhysicalDistributionAvailable  boolean  0..1  Indicates whether or not physical media may be order for this Download Package.
AttributeDescriptor  AttributeDescriptor  0..*  See AttributeDescriptor.
AlternateLanguage  DownloadPackageAlternateLanguage  0..*  See DownloadPackageAlternateLanguage.
LastModifiedDateTime  dateTime  0..1 

Enables producers to import data about periodic updates into their back office system and make this data available to their end customers.

In a request, the parameter has the following structure:

<LastModifiedDateTime>
   <value>2022-09-13T15:00:34+02:00</value>
   <searchType>AFTER</searchType>
</LastModifiedDateTime>

The LastModifiedDateType includes a value and searchType:

  • value—The date and time value is used to select items based on when they were last modified. If no time zone is provided in the request, the search is carried out in the time zone of the FlexNet Operations database (Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)). This can be overridden by specifying a time zone in the request. When including a time zone in the request, the time zone should be specified as offset from GMT (for example, 2022-09-13T15:00:34+02:00).

  • searchType—One of the following values: ON, AFTER, BEFORE.

The date and time in the response are provided in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

EXAMPLE

When a download package is created at 2022-08-11T07:10:39 - PST, it can be searched in following ways:

Central European Time (CET)

<LastModifiedDateTime>
   <value>2022-08-11T16:10:39+02:00</value>
   <searchType>ON</searchType>
</LastModifiedDateTime>


Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

<LastModifiedDateTime>
   <value>2022-08-11T14:10:39.000Z</value>
   <searchType>ON</searchType>
</LastModifiedDateTime>


Pacific Standard Time (PST)

<LastModifiedDateTime>
   <value>2022-08-11T07:10:39</value>
   <searchType>ON</searchType>
</LastModifiedDateTime>

Also, the following parameter should be set to true:

<ReturnContainedObjects>true</ReturnContainedObjects> 
RestrictCode  string  0..1  Restrict Download Package functionality. Values are A=Allow, D=Deny, N=empty string (not currently restricted).