Hi David,
1) We need to construct an sourcing event for many components of different component types. Each component type can have almost disjunctive set of terms (about 50) and each component is defined as a Lot within one Ariba sourcing event.Some of terms/attributes are part of formula of the total cost, the rest is used for gathering of additional information for buyers.
2) the integration is implemented between our ERP system (IFS) and Ariba. ImportSourcingEvent web service is used to upload event to Ariba with prefilled values (component code, description, ...). The event is constructed dynamically our side and can contain different number of components (Lots) depending on the product from which is the integration invoked. DownloadAward is used to download result (Award created in Ariba) back to IFS.
Currently we need to provide more component types and we faced the issue with 256 columns of the Excel file used for the integration (97-2003). Do you think there is still a way how we could utilize this old Excel version for our integration or should we rather rewrite the integration for xlsx or change the approach to the integration at all?
Thank you,
Rosta