SCT Banner Student / Release Guide / 7.0

Section 10 APIs - TechnicalAPI DisclaimerSection 10APIs - TechnicalThis enhancement is new for Release 7.0.API DisclaimerWarning: Please be advised that several APIs are currently intended to only supportinternal operations.To ensure data integrity, these APIs are not supported when called byexternal applications or interfaces to manipulate data. Therecommendation for external applications is to use message levelintegration to integrate with these entities in SCT Banner.The following APIs come under this disclaimer:• gb_stvterm• sb_course_registration• sb_enrollment• sb_facassignment• sb_learnercurricstatus• sp_gradingOverviewApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs) are delivered with Banner 7.0 tofacilitate the integration of SCT Banner with other applications on campus andsimplify code by encapsulating business logic in database packages. An API is acentral program that creates, updates, and deletes data. APIs also execute andvalidate business rules before inserting or updating information.Tables that work with the APIs have had USER_ID and DATA_SOURCE fields added tothem, if those fields did not already exist.January 2005 Student Release 7.0Confidential Release Guide 263