Introduction (Spec)

The purpose of the External ID Service is to support integrators. It provides means to store mappings between their own external ID and Enfores internal ID. At its current state, it is basically a key/value store.

Mapping

• need to be bijective, that means key/value must be unique in each direction.
• are scoped to:
  • organization
  • namespace
  • entity-class

A namespace must be created once before it's usable. Valid entity-classes are exposed by the external ID service itself.

Entity-classes are e.g.:

• products
• feature-templates
• feature-groups
• invoices
• sales-categories
• lots
• sales-orders
• staff-members
• bank-accounts