topic Re: OData Services documentation in Application Development and Automation Discussions

OData Services documentation

urs_troesch — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:27:20 GMT

We're integrating C4C data into our data warehouse via OData interface.

We struggle with the data structures in C4C. Is there a more complete documentation than the ones we know.
We know the integration information which is included in C4C (Business Analytics > Design Data Sources > Documentation > Integration information
There the problem is that it's often very unclear which Field belongs to which "real entity". If we would download all columns we have lots of duplicates. Then there is the OData services documentation:
https://help.sap.com/doc/77979cd206da4b7f9bd264b390d373fc/1908/en-US/OData_Services.pdf
This document shows the logical structure of the data sources which is very helpful.
The naming is not 100% matching with the namings on the data source information.
The thing which is missing is "which field in the data source belongs to which logical entity from the Odata services documentation".
Is there such documentation available? Or is "trial & error" the only possibility?

Re: OData Services documentation

former_member187491 — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:50:51 GMT

Hi Urs,

Please note that the PDF document in the link above provides a link to the latest OData API V2 Reference document - https://help.sap.com/doc/d0f9ba822c08405da7d88174b304df84/latest/en-US/index.html. It provides the field level detail you are looking for.

Please be careful not to use the C4C OData API v1 reference which is included in the PDF, as it is deprecated.

Regards,

Mustafa.

Re: OData Services documentation

urs_troesch — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:11:10 GMT

Thx, seems like this answers all my doubts.