Before creating a provider to work with Primavera Gateway, the following key decisions have to be made:
- Identifying what data is to be shared and exchanged between the applications.
- Use the Primavera Gateway user interface to review what data is available in a Primavera application that you want to integrate with. For a detailed listing of business objects supported by each Primavera provider, see the Primavera Gateway Providers Data Dictionary Guide.
- Refer to your application's documentation to review what data is available for integration.
- Identifying what business flows are supported in Primavera Gateway for each Primavera provider. For more details on supported flows, see Flow Types Supported by Primavera Providers.
- Identifying additional data elements that need to be supported and shared. This includes user-defined fields (UDFs), metadata, and field mappings.
- For event providers, identify and define what type of events should trigger a corresponding synchronization job in Gateway for a provider application.
All of the above decisions help in determining your source and destination application for synchronizing data in Primavera Gateway.