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  4. Exchange Interface Capabilities

Exchange Interface Capabilities

Exchange Capabilities allow the sending system to know whether or not the receiving system supports the specified functionality. The negotiation of interface capabilities is only supported between Oracle Hospitality solution integrations. Exchange Capabilities can automatically maintain the capabilities of the remote systems that OXI and OXIHUB communicate and is designed to have resort and message specific controls of the functionality that a particular property supporting.

The 'Enabled_YN' flag is what determines whether a particular functionality is available or not. The Enabled flag for all new functionality is set to N by default. The Enabled flag will only be updated through the Capability Message exchange; the Interface Property Capabilities screen lists all the available functions for the Interface Property combination.

The resort that initiated the Capability Exchange will receive the response Capability Exchange message and will set the Enabled flag to Y for the entire list of functions, if any of them were previously set to N. Once again, if the initiating property does indeed update the Enabled flags from N to Y, the update will trigger another exchange of capability messages. This cycle stops on the receiving side when it finds no more functionality to update. The entire process can take up to 3 exchanges of capability messages to correctly update the resorts functionality. If the process of updating a resort's functionality results in the Enabled flag remaining set to N, it could mean that either the target property doesn't support the functionality or the initiating property is still waiting for its Capability Exchange message response.

Note:

XML Schema Version negotiation is available in the collection for exchange with the external system. This allows users to synchronize the highest mutually available XML schema version between interfaces in an automated process. 

Updating Interface Capabilities

  1. From the Exchange menu, select Interface Setup, then select Interface Setup. 

  2. Enter search criteria, then click Search.

  3. Select the interface in the search result, then click I Want to... and select Update Exchange Capabilities.

    1.  Click Update Exchange Capabilities.

Parent topic: Interface Setup