REST API troubleshooting ChangeJobHeadJobEngineered

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

@dheinrich

How did you create / populate the “UpdExtJobEntryTableset” that the UpdateExt method takes

You don’t really populate an UpdateExt dataset, with a BO. You populate all the key fields, and your
changes, and it in theory should handle the rest for you. (Sometimes it’s dumb.)

What that means is, add just your changes and all of the required fields with code or widgets, and
let it fly.

Here is a good post for you:

Row not Recognized as Updated using Sales Order Update Ext. Method Directive

Hold on - this is complicated but not that mysterious. UpdateExt processing: UpdateExt (Update External) was created to allow records with partial data values to be accepted and processed. Clearly all the Key Fields for a record and all the Mandatory fields for a record are required and unlike Update, multiple different tables (and multiple different records) can be updated with a single call. All the records passed in to UpdateExt will cause an update to occur - while BPM may have the concept…