Application data

Application data is often referred to as configuration data or simply configuration. It defines the business, logical, and physical entities within the IEE database and the relationships among those entities. For more information, see the IEE Data Model.

You can work with configuration data in the following ways.

• Program-Based Configuration, which uses a pre-loaded set of common properties defined in a program to create a configuration instance. Every entity based on that program is created from the properties defined by that program. See Program-based configuration.

• Advanced Configuration creates complete configurations in which all properties are defined at the time the configuration instance is created. See Advanced configuration.

You can Viewing configuration data, Editing configuration data, Deleting configuration data, and Adding configuration data application data using the IEE Rich Client.

Note: Editing application data is not the same as editing data through the Editing and Estimation functions, in which you edit meter data.

Configuration templates speed up the advanced configuration process by saving various entity configurations in the system. To create a similar entity, you can open the configuration template and modify the fields.

When working with large numbers of configuration entities, use the Customer Configuration XML APIs for both Advanced and Program-Based Configurations. These APIs are available through both file-based XML imports or through web services APIs. Refer to the IEE API and web services documentation for more details.