SELF SERVICE PROPAGATION OF CUSTOM EXTENSION FIELDS INTO WEB SERVICES

摘要

Software solutions in a business software framework can expose their data via web services, which can readily provide access to all non-customized fields of objects included as part of the default installation of the software solution. However, customer-added extensions, such as for example custom fields and the like, added to customize the software solution for a specific business or business use can be difficult to add to web services by a typical business user who lacks technical abilities. Described herein are approaches to enabling addition of custom fields to web services via an intuitive interface that does not require technical understanding of the software solution, the business software framework, web services, etc.

主权项

1. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving a user input entered via a user interface of a business software framework, the user input comprising selection of an option to define a further usage of a custom field defined for a customer organization of the business software framework, the custom field extending a standard data structure of the business software framework; presenting, via a further user screen of the user interface, a list of available web services for making data of the business software framework available for migration to or integration with another software solution; generating, dynamically at runtime upon detection of a user selection of a selected web service from the list of available web services, executable code necessary to add the custom field to the selected web service; and providing, using the executable code, access to the custom field via a call to the selected web service call.