REST Custom Action - Change External Status

This feature provides you with a new Custom Action, changeExternalStatus, that allows you to set the external status for your business object and will raise the related lifetime events that you can use to trigger your automation agents.

Business Benefit: This feature provides a way for you to trigger the execution of automation agents related to objects with external status types and values, when those external types and values are changed using a REST service. 

Steps to Enable and Configure

If you wish to trigger automation agents when changing the external status on your buy shipments using REST, then you will need to use the changeExternalStatus custom action to change your buy shipment external status values. The Business Actions section of the REST API for Fusion Cloud Transportation and Global Trade Management Business Object Resources provides the details required for using the changeExternalStatus custom action. 

Tips And Considerations

While you have the ability to update the external status values on your business objects directly using REST, that approach does not raise the related external status lifetime events. The changeExternalStatus custom action allows you to set the external status and also raises lifetime events that you can use to trigger your automation agents. If you are currently managing external status changes using REST and you have no need to listen for the external status change lifetime events, you have no agents listening for these lifetime events, then you do not need to adjust your current approach.