Required elements in BOD

Legacy Contributor

Is there an option in ION to require that all available SyncInvoice BOD Elements are provided even if no data is present in CloudSuite Distribution? For example, if an invoice has a freight cost the default behavior is for the BOD to include an element for freight. However is the invoice does not have a freight cost associated with it the default behavior that the BOD will contain this element. 

The XML schema we have on the backend to process the BOD is unable to handle this fluidity on elements. I'm looking for a way to enforce inclusion of BOD elements even when there is no data provided in CSD to pass to ION and into the BOD. A "give me all elements" approach regardless of the what data is present within CSD.

Thank you for any insight into this process. 

Legacy Contributor

Hey Troy,

You may want to check if there's a method in CSD to persist empty elements. Barring that, you could use the ION Mapper to provide a default value to the target field (e.g. FreightCost). Simply define the Sync.Invoice BOD as both the source and target documents and then right-click on the target FreightCost element and define a default. If no value was provided from CSD, then it will default to whatever value you provided.

In this case, I just added a space as a default to my ComponentID field. When I preview the mapping using a sample BOD where this field is missing, I see an output for my subscribing application to process.

 

 

Thanks