Creating Operations for a Mobile Business Object

Use the Operation Creation wizard to create an operation and add it to the mobile business object.

Prerequisites

You must first create a mobile business object before adding an operation, unless you create the mobile business object directly from the data source, in which case you can drag-and-drop the data source on to the Mobile Application Diagram which launches the Quick Create wizard for automatic creation of attributes and operations.

Task
  1. Launch the New Operation wizard from the Mobile Application Diagram by selecting the Operation icon from the palette, then selecting the operation section of the mobile business object to which you are adding the operation.
  2. Follow the wizard instructions to add an operation to the mobile business object. Include the operation type that allows you to Create, Update, or Delete data on the back-end data source, Entity Read used in conjunction with Create and Update to refresh a single instance of an MBO, or Other for other types (or undefined) operations.
    Note: The New Operation wizard varies depending on the type of data source to which the operation is bound. See the corresponding binding topic for detailed information.
  3. Select either:
    Option Description
    Specify a data source Specify the data source to which the mobile business object operation maps. You must have access to the data source (for example, a data source connection profile) to which you are binding to use this option.
    Bind data source later Manually define the operation, parameters, and role assignments without binding to the data source.
Related concepts
Entity Read Operations
Defining Output Mappings
Composite Operations
Related reference
Mobile Business Object Properties
Mobile Business Object Attribute Properties
Mobile Business Object Operation Properties
Datatype Support
Old Value Argument