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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2020

Better integration between manageOrganizationHierarchy and Calendars

The API for managing organizations allows the caller to specify the receiving, shipping and business calendars, but only by specifying the calendar key.

The key is typically a system generated value which is unique to the environment and therefore not useful in an interface.

Please allow for the API to specify instead the calendar id for these three calendars.

Better yet, allow the API to specify the Calendar details directly by adding an optional Calendar node to the API.

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

Legacy systems that feed OMS retail store location info typically also maintain store hours / calendar info. Consistency between these APIs greatly simplifies the integration points to maintain store hours and locations.

Consistency in the API (by allowing a foreign key to be specified by id, rather than by key) allows much easier integration to source or legacy systems. Keys cannot typically be used by interfaces as they can change between environments. Ids can be used as they can be specified externally when the calendar is created.