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Custom Integration Component Fields

In some cases, you might want to pass custom attributes that are not necessarily part of the actual data but related to the context of the data. You can use various means such as SOAP headers and transport headers to pass such custom fields; however, in Siebel CRM version 8.1 and higher you can have them as part of the integration schema as custom integration component fields.

Custom attributes can be added manually to integration objects as integration component fields. The integration component field type (Type property in the Object List Editor, Field Type in the Properties window) of custom attributes must be set to Custom. XML style can be chosen as Attribute or Element, appearing in the schema as XML attributes and XML elements, respectively.

The new custom attributes will appear in the schema generated from the integration object, like any other integration component field.