Properties, Files, and Fields

Property is a variable associated with an OFSC entity (resource, activity or inventory). This is much like a field of an object in most programming languages. The Inbound API deals with properties of activity, further referred to as 'activity property', properties of resource (actually the only resource property is 'inventory') and properties of inventory, further referred to as 'inventory property'. Every property has a string label by which it is uniquely identified – it can be thought of as a field name and a value.

If there is a property of an entity in OFSC, all such entities have this property, and the Inbound Interface can read this property, write to it and make conditional decisions based on the property value. If a file is assigned to an entity, it is called a 'file property' or 'file'. Some properties are initially defined in OFSC and others are customer specific and created in the course of implementation. Properties initially defined in OFSC are addressed as 'fields'.