What Happens to Non-Existing Objects?

[deanphelps]

If a request returns objects A, B, C, D, & E, objects A, B, & C exist in Aria Operations, D & E don't, and I create an object via ADD EXISTING, what happens to D & E - are they still created per the object's definition?

If this question has been asked and answered, I apologize for the inconvenience. 

TY

Dean

[Mark Arbogast]

Hi @deanphelps -- if you have a single request that returns a combination of existing and new objects, you have several options:

1. You could create new objects from that request AND extend existing objects from that request. This would result in some duplicate data for objects A, B, and C, as they would have data both on the existing object and the new object representing them.
2. You could just extend existing objects (via ADD EXISTING). There would be no duplicate data, but you would not have any data in Ops for objects D and E.
3. You could just create new objects (ADD NEW), but then relate them to the existing objects using the Relationships feature (instead of ADD EXISTING). With this option, you would get data for all objects A-E. The downside would be duplicate object representation for A-C.
4. Ideally, if possible, find a way to split up the request into two requests: one which returns existing objects, and one which returns new objects. Then you could ADD EXISTING based on the former, and ADD NEW based on the latter.

Best regards,

Mark