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EDT 2.5 Update

Updates an Electronic Document Type (EDT)


Parameters

NameTypeDirectionDescription
psAuthContextStringInOutDeprecated proprietary authentication context only used by .ASMX web services based on internal username/password authentication. Claims based security standards drive all the WCF .SVC web services, making this parameter redundant.
psEDTIdStringInThe unique identifier of the electronic document type.
psXMLMetadataStringInMetadata XML structure with the metadata that will be set on the current object.
psXMLRequiredCurrentMetadataStringInMetadata XML structure with the metadata that object is required to have set currently. The update of the object is only carried out when the object has exactly the same metadata specification, i.e. the metadata was not changed by someone else.

Requirements are:
  • Only an 'Administrator' can update an EDT.
Note that:
  • The level attribute on the ishfield element must be 'none.
  • In order to rename the EDT, add the field FISHEDTNAME with the new name to psXMLMetaData.