How to identify created Milestone?

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am using the Enterprise Service "Update Project Work Breakdown Structure Element" (ecc_projwbselmntupdtrc) to create milestones in the work breakdown structure of the SAP Project System.

This works fine, my only problem is that the response of this service does not contain any ID of the created milestone. However I would like to store the ID in my third-party application for later updates of the milestone. IMHO this is a bug in the service (also present in the corresponding network update service).

Any idea how to find this ID?

Regards,

Uwe.

[Former Member]

It's good that no one ever answers my questions - so I can find out on my own

My solution is to read the parent WBS/network element before creating the milestone via an Update call and afterwards read the parent element once more. By comparing both lists of milestones I can guess that the added ID is the ID I just created.

An API with a create interface that does not return the created instance or at least a handle or an id would be considered badly designed. But long live the efficiency of web services!