Updating Parameters with Current Information

Document parameters may be immutable. Once generated on creation, an immutable parameter is never updated. This is important for parameters that act as unique identifiers on the document.

Other parameters, however, may reflect information regarding the document or its owner (e.g. a shipment pickup location). This information may change as transactional data is updated in the system. By default, document parameters are only updated when changes are made to the document. It is possible, though, to trigger an update of all mutable document parameters when changes are detected in the document’s owner.

• A user may manually invoke the Update Document Parameters action from the Document manager, the manager for the document owner (e.g. the Shipment manager) or the Documents tab on the owner.
• An automation agent may be set up to listen to events on the document owner and, using a data type association (for example, E.g., SHIPMENT TO DOCUMENT), run the UPDATE DOCUMENT PARAMETERS agent action for each owned document.
• An automation agent may be set up to list to events on the document owner and run the UPDATE STANDARD DOCUMENT PARAMETERS agent action to update the parameters for a particular standard document type.

Any time document parameters are updated, they are resent to the CMS to synchronize CMS data with Oracle Transportation and Global Trade Management Cloud data.