Product Packaging Service Operations

The following table shows the basic types of Web Services operations that manage the entities in the product hierarchy: features, feature bundles, products, suites, and maintenance. Many of these types of operations are also supported in the other FlexNet Operations Web Services.

Patterns in Product Packaging Service Operations

Operation Type

Description

create

Create the entity in the draft state.

update

Update an existing entity with the new values provided, if its state allows modification. (Depending on the state and the modified field this may require the Allow Editing of Deployed Entities setting to be checked on the Producer Portal—System > Configure > FlexNet Operations.)

delete

Delete an existing entity, if its state allows deletion.

getCount

Return the number of entities that match the specified criteria.

getQuery

Return the entities that match the specified query parameters.

get

Provide one query parameter (usually an identifier) and return data.

setState

Change the state of an entity, if its current state allows the change.