Question

We noticed that using X-service update_doc, doc_action=UPDATE-CHK the service is updating the DB in case there are no errors at all. Is this the desired behaviour?

Answer

Yes, indeed X-service update_doc, doc_action=UPDATE-CHK performs an update in case there are no errors related to the document.

The purpose of this is, that via the X-service you can simulate the behaviour of Cataloging GUI when staff is pressing the "Save on Server"-button:
First the record is sent with doc_action=UPDATE-CHK to the server. If there are no errors the records is directly saved on server (this behaviour is the same in GUI and X-server). If there are errors the staff gets a list of errors and in GUI has the chance to ignore non-mandatory errors. Aleph in this case is sending the record with doc_action=UPDATE to server so that it is clear that non-mandatory errors should be ignored.

Therefore using doc_action = UPDATE-CHK and doc_action=UPDATE the same functionality can be used in X-service.

Additional Information

There currently is no doc_action that can be used to perform checks only.

• Article last edited: 6/5/2014