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Element epcis:ObjectEventType/action
 
 
Type: epcis:ActionType
 
  
Definition: The Action type says how an event relates to the lifecycle of the entity being described.

The Action type is an enumerated type having three possible values:

ADD - The entity in question has been created or added to.

OBSERVE - The entity in question has not been changed: it has neither been
created, added to, destroyed, or removed from.

DELETE - The entity in question has been removed from or destroyed
altogether.


The action is independent of the bizStep (of type BusinessStepID) which identifies the specific business process step in which the action took place.

Action is not a vocabulary type, and SHALL NOT be extended by industry groups.
Description:  The Action field of an ObjectEvent describes the event’s relationship to the lifecycle of the EPC(s) named in the event. Specifically:

ADD - The EPC(s) named in the event have been commissioned as part of this event; that is, the EPC(s) have been issued and associated with an object (s) for the first time.

OBSERVE - The event represents a simple observation of the EPC(s) named in the event, not their commissioning or decommissioning.

DELETE - The EPC(s) named in the event have been decommissioned as part of this event; that is, the EPC(s) do not exist subsequent to the event and should not be observed again.
Example:  AggregationEvent is used to capture events related to physical aggregations of objects, such as cases aggregated to a pallet.

Throughout its life,the pallet load participates in many business process steps, each of which may generate an EPCIS event. The action field of each event says how the aggregation itself has changed during the event: have objects been added to the aggregation, have objects been removed from the aggregation, or has the aggregation simply been observed without change to its membership?
   
Applicable Codes
 
ADD
DELETE
OBSERVE
 
  Date Of Publication: 01.04.2008  
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