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Integrating Data
iVend Retail 6.6 - Extensibility Package has made it simple to integrate data to external database table, user defined fields, and user defined tables.
This section gives you insight about the references, and highlights the approaches to integrate data with iVend Retail 6.6.
The data can be stored at the following places:
oUser-defined tables (in iVend Retail 6.6 database)
oUser-defined fields (in existing iVend Retail 6.6 objects)
User Defined Table (UDT), and User Defined Fields (UDFs) should follow iVend Retail 6.6 - Extensibility Package naming conventions, as described in Naming Conventions.
Providing with more flexibility, it allows developers to create User Defined Table, and User Defined Fields with Data Interface of iVend Add-on Framework.
User Defined Table
From within iVend Retail 6.6 - Extensibility Package, you can create your own database tables for storing data for custom business objects.
For more information:
oOn creating user-defined tables with iVend Retail 6.6 - Extensibility, see the "How to Create User-Defined Table and Fields" guide.
oOn accessing user-defined table data, see Accessing UDT and UDFs.
User Defined Fields
You can extend database tables of iVend Retail by adding user-defined fields. This is the recommended way of adding specialized data when new tables are not required.
For more information on:
oCreating user-defined fields with iVend Retail 6.6 - Extensibility Package, see the "How to Create User-Defined Table and Fields" guide.
oAccessing user-defined field data, see Accessing UDT and UDFs.
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