Object Types

When describing what happened in an event there is usually an entity or entities involved in the event, e.g. a user deleting a document, sending an email, creating a virtual session, etc. The majority of the schema actions support acting on one or more instances of the MultiObjectComplexType, this structure describes a choice of the following entity types:

Where the entity involved in the event cannot be described by one of the predefined categories in this structure then the <Object> structure can be used as a last resort.

Common Structural Elements

The following elements are common to all of the above object types;

• Type - The type of the object in question and specific to the object type from the list above, e.g. a <Resource> object may have a type such as ‘image’ or ‘script’
• Id - An identifier for the object, e.g a document ID in a document management system
• Name - The name of the object, e.g. a filename
• Description - Human readable description of what the object is
• Classification - Any classification or restrictions placed on the object, e.g. for commercially sensitive reports or user health records (see Basic Structure)
• State - Any state information about the object, e.g. ‘Archived’
• Groups - Any groups associated with the object, e.g. group membership of a user account
• Permissions - Any permissions associated with the object, e.g. write access being granted to a list of named users or groups
• Data - An extensible structure for additional unstructured data as described in Unstructured Data
• Meta - An extensible structure for structured meta data as described in Meta Element