Pandora Functions Descriptions
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Contents
Function Overview
Pandora functions are are divided into a number of types.
- Session Level Functions – these functions are used to manage the session associated with the processing being performed.
- Information Finding Functions – these functions are used to retrieve multi-record recordsets based on provided criteria.
- List functions
- Update Functions – these functions are used to create new entities within the system.
- Utility functions – these functions provide additional general functionality to the API.
General System Functions
These functions are general to the entire instance.
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| Session_Login (Find) | Enables Login to the instance. |
| Session_getCurrentUser (Find) | Enables retrieving the current user information. |
| Session_getCurrentCompany (Find) | Enables retrieving the current user’s organisational information. |
| Send Message (Add) | Enables sending a message (email or quick message). |
| Company (All) | Enables organisation search functions to retrieve all organisations. |
| Company Below (Find,Update) | Enables organisation search functions to retrieve only organisations at the user’s hierarchical level and lower. |
| Contact (All) | Enables contact search functions can retrieve all contacts. |
| Contact Below (Find,Update) | Enables contact search functions to retrieve contacts at the user’s hierarchical level and lower |
UTA Specific Functions
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
| UTA - Level One Item (All) | Enables access to Level 1 items I UTAs. |
| UTA - Level Two Item (All) | Enables access to Level 2 items I UTAs. |
| UTA - Level Three Item (All) | Enables access to Level 3 items I UTAs. |
| UTA - Invoices (All) | Enables access to UTA invoices (invoice item and invoice line item). |
| UTA - Level One Skills (Find,Update) | Enables access to Level 1 skills. |
| UTA - Use Level One Item Security Matrix (All) | Enforces UTA security for Level 1 items. |
| UTA - Use Level Two Item Security Matrix (All) | Enforces UTA security for Level 2 items. |
| UTA - Use Level Three Item Security Matrix (All) | Enforces UTA security for Level 3 items. |
General Guidelines
The following guides are common to all function calls.
Field Referencing
- Standard fields are referenced by name. ,’firstname,lastname’.
- Custom fields by filename (recommended) or field ID.
- Fields specified = recordset fields.
- First field always ID.
- Standard fields when field list empty.
