Primavera Gateway providers can be customized to add custom field-mappings, parameters, and steps in business flows. Flexible object mapping is another powerful provider customization feature that allows you define and create new business object mappings between the source and destination provider applications based on your organization's data requirements.
By using this feature, you are no longer limited to only working with the business object mappings supported and delivered within Gateway. Define flexible object mapping to create custom business object mappings to deliver customized solutions to support extensive use-case scenarios to manipulate and share data between applications at the business object level.
For example, you can use this feature to convert specific roles in the Sample to Resources in P6 by defining a custom object mapping between a Role object in Sample provider and the Resource object in P6.
To create new object mappings in Gateway, you must:
- Add a new cross-reference key to set up a new object mapping in a data dictionary
or
Create a customization XML file containing the new object mappings for the business objects on the source side.
- Import the customization file into Gateway.
- Add a field mapping template to support the new object mapping specified in the customization file.
- Add a business flow to support the field mapping template for the new object mapping.