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Book

The book object provides a way of segmenting data according to the organizational units of your business, such as territories or products. Administrators can create book hierarchies based on how they want to organize your information, and then set up users to have the appropriate level of access to books.

NOTE:  To download the Book WSDL, you must be given access to the Book object. If you do not have access to the Book object, it is not available to download from the Web Services Administration pages. For assistance in gaining access to the Book object, contact your Oracle CRM On Demand service provider.

Usage

To specify when book assignments become active for accounts and contacts, you can update the StartDate and EndDate fields of the Book child object through Web service calls. If you do not specify a start date for a book assignment, then the assignment becomes active immediately. You can also update the FuturePrimary field to specify whether the book that you assign to an account or contact is to become the primary book for that account or contact when the book assignment becomes active.

The FuturePrimary field is not visible in the Oracle CRM On Demand UI and the StartDate and EndDate fields are read-only in the UI. For more information about time-based book assignments, see Oracle CRM On Demand Online Help

Parent Objects

Account, Activity, Contact, Custom Object 1 - 3, Lead, Household, Lead, Opportunity, Product Category, Service Request.

Child Components

BookUser, SubBook.

Methods Called

Table 208 details the methods called by the Book service.

Fields

Table 209 details the required and read-only fields for the book object.

Table 210 details the status key for the book object.

Table 211 details the pick map fields for the book object.

Table 212 provides a list of the filterable fields for the child components of the book object, and a list of user key combinations for each child component.

Table 213 details the picklists available for the book object.

For more information on the fields accessible through the Book Web service, go to the Web Services Administration page within the Oracle CRM On Demand application and generate the WSDL file for the book object.