About Execute Method Operations

Specify an attribute named operation, in lowercase, to the component’s XML element. The legal values for this attribute are upsert, sync, delete, query, update, insert, updatesync, insertsync, skipnode, skiptree, and none. If the operation is not specified on the root component, then the sync operation is used as the default.

Note: Specifying an operation within the ListOf tag is not supported. For information on the ListOf tag, see XML Reference: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.

Each child node inherits the operation from the parent if another operation is not explicitly specified. If another operation is explicitly specified, then the following table represents the results of the operation on the current node.

Operation	What Happens to the Current Node	What Happens to Unmatched Children of Current Node
upsert	Update or insert	Leave alone
sync	Update or insert	Delete
update	Update	Delete
updatesync	Update	Delete
insert	Insert	Leave alone
insertsync	Insert	Delete
skipnode	Skip this node	Leave alone
skiptree	Skip the tree	Not applicable