You can use the provider to work with all of the tables in your account. The provider connects to Certinia and gets the list of tables and the metadata for the tables by calling the appropriate web services. Any changes you make to your Certinia account, such as adding a new table, adding new columns, or changing the data type of a column, are immediately reflected when you connect using the provider.

Tables

The provider models the Certinia API as relational Tables. The table definitions are dynamically retrieved; here, we show the sample table definitions that are included in the FinancialForce.com development environment.

In addition to the tables, the provider also offers stored procedures and views, enabling you to work with other aspects of the Certinia API, like bulk jobs, custom reports, and so on.

Stored Procedures

Stored Procedures are function-like interfaces to Certinia. They can be used to search, update, and modify information in Certinia.

Views

Views offer additional metadata information from Certinia.