Category
Return, update, create and delete categories for cost center tracking.
Date Released: Aug 2013 Date Updated: Dec 2020
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The elements list below details information for Category. To view the descriptions for the elements you can either hover any attribute to reveal details or click here to show all details inline.
Items shown with are required when posting or puting data
Items shown with are read-only elements
Attribute Details
- UID Guid (36)
- Unique category identifier in the form of a guid.
ONLY required for updating an existing category
NOT required when creating a new category. - DisplayIDString (15)
- Display id assigned to the category.
- NameString (30)
- Name assigned to the category.
- Description String (255)
- Description text for the category.
- IsActive Boolean
- Please note: Defaults to true if left blank on POST.
True indicates the category is active.
False indicates the category is inactive. - URIString
- Uniform resource identifier encompasses all types of names and addresses that refer to objects on the web.
- RowVersionString
- Number value that changes upon a record update, can be used for change control but does does not preserve a date or a time.
ONLY required for updating an existing category.
NOT required when creating a new category.
Paging: default page size is set to 400 with a maximum of 1000 results.
Example json GET response
- {
- "UID" : "37a98bf5-f217-4dff-bf1f-703f5c0419f6",
- "DisplayID" : "CAT002",
- "Name" : "Victoria",
- "Description" : "Demo API Category Endpoint.",
- "IsActive" : true,
- "Uri" : "{cf_uri}/GeneralLedger/Category/37a98bf5-f217-4dff-bf1f-703f5c0419f6",
- "RowVersion" : "4149785581645201401"
- }
