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Making OMF Objects Work with Hierarchy Manager

Hierarchy Manager allows any kind of business object to be linked through a hierarchy, as long as that business object implements a set of interfaces and registers with hierarchy properly.

For the standard product, the following types of business objects are ready to be used as hierarchy link targets: Account, Company, Service, ServiceAgreement, ChargeType, ServiceCharge, CostCenter, and Folder.

In addition to linking the business object to the hierarchy, the new types of business objects can participate in various hierarchy related processes, such as loading billing data, hierarchy XML exchange, and OLTP to OLAP synchronization through a framework.

Once you have created your business object, to link your object through hierarchy, implement a list of hierarchy related interfaces, and then tell the hierarchy module where to find these implementations by configuring them the in the hierarchy/hierarchy.cfg.xma.xml file.