The Corporate Purchasing Submit pipeline consists of two stages. These stages run components that validate the purchase order requisition, transfer the purchase order to the vendor, and write the order to database storage. This pipeline is analogous to the Purchase pipeline used in business-to-consumer sites.
The Corporate Purchasing Submit pipeline can be run once you have run an OrderForm successfully through the Corporate Purchasing Plan pipeline, and have confirmed the customer's desire to finalize a purchase.
Because these pipeline components write to a database, the Corporate Purchasing Submit pipeline is often a transacted pipeline. A transacted pipeline is a pipeline that consists exclusively of components that are designed and configured to support Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) transactions.
This template for the Corporate Purchasing Submit pipeline is CorpPurchaseSubmit.pct. An example of a pipeline based on this template is the CorpPurchasingSubmit.pcf file in the /Config directory of the Microsoft Market sample site.
The Corporate Purchasing Submit pipeline template consists of the following stages.
The Purchase Order Validate stage is used to verify that the purchase order is valid.
Commerce Server 3.0 includes no component for this stage (other than Scriptor). However, you can add your own custom component to validate the purchase order.
This stage handles the completed purchase order and transmits it to the vendor.
The components related to this stage include the following.
| Component | Description |
|---|---|
| ExecuteProcess | Executes an application on the server with the specified arguments. |
| MakePO | Generates a purchase order, based on a template file. |
| PipeToPipe Transfer | Transfers an OrderForm or Dictionary from the currently running pipeline to another pipeline. |
| POtoFile | Sends a purchase order (typically the result of MakePO) to a file. |
| SaveReceipt | Writes the contents of the OrderForm to the receipt storage. |
| SendSMTP | Sends a mail message to the specified address. |
| SQLItem | Runs the specified SQL command for each item in the order with the given fields from the order and item as arguments. |
| SQLItemADO | Runs the specified SQL command for each item in the order with the given fields from the order and item as arguments. This component is identical to SQLItem, except that it performs its work using Microsoft® ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO), and can be included in a transacted pipeline. |
| SQLOrder | Runs the specified SQL command once per order, with the given fields from the order as arguments. |
| SQLOrderADO | Runs the specified SQL command once per order, with the given fields from the order as arguments. This component is identical to SQLOrder, except that it performs its work using ADO, and can be included in a transacted pipeline. |