BDS Limitations

The following sub-sections contain further notes and restrictions on BDS and Forms.

Object Type

The BDS Object type is not supported in Forms, so Business Objects that include Object type attributes cannot be displayed on Forms.

Change of Order in Multiple Data

BDS supports the use of multiplicity on a sequence, choice, or group. For more information, see Multiple Instances in Sequences and Groups.

However:

  • Data with multiplicity greater than one can only be used as an input parameter to a form.
  • When an ordered set of data from such a source is loaded into a form, any ordering in the original is lost. The data is grouped by type rather than by its original ordering. The data is read-only, so the user cannot change it.

No Support for Nillable with Multiplicity Greater Than 1

BDS does not support having an element in an XSD or WSDL set to:

  • nillable, and
  • multipicity set to greater than 1.
BDS only allows one element in an XSD or WSDL to be set to nillable.