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About Using Effective Dating with Siebel EAI Adapter Business Service

The Siebel EAI Adapter allows you to access effective dating data, which means the start date and end date for a given field or link. Third-party applications can request and receive effective dating data from the Siebel application.

To view XML samples for effective dating functionality see XML Reference: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.

You specify effective dating on fields of a given business component through a Siebel Web Client administration screen. For more information, see Enabling Effective Dating on Fields. Two integration component fields attributes allow you to set effective dating: EDStartDate and EDEndDate. Standard querying techniques, such as query, insert, update, sync can be used to request effective dating-enabled data.

As Figure 38 shows, the Siebel Object Manager framework features APIs which are called by the Siebel EAI Adapter when an integration object with effective dating enabled fields or links is read by the XML Converter.

Figure 38. Effective Dating Overview

The following two topics explain how effective dating works:

• Enabling Effective Dating on Fields
• Enabling Effective Dating on Links