Cmdlets

All the following OData cmdlets support OData version v1, v2, v3, v4.
They all try to perform as less server requests as possible, in order to ensure high performance when communicating over the network or the internet with your ERP system.

Connection management

Cmdlets for connection establishment with OData services:

Name	Description
Connect-ERP	Connects to an ERP-System.
Disconnect-ERP	Disconnects from an ERP-System.

Cmdlets to read metadata of connected OData services:

Name	Description
Get-ERPServices	Returns information about the connected services
Get-ERPEntitySets	Returns information about the available entitySets
Get-ERPEntityTypes	Returns information about the available EntityTypes.

Metadata

Requests to retrieve the service $metadata are only performed when needed and only for the required services.
When services are not available, powerGate will try to retrieve there metadata as long as they become available! Warnings will be logged in order to inform about the downtime of the service.

After retrieving metadata once, no further metadata request is required as the server results are cached.

Performance

When some of the services are permanently not available, you can speed up your process by disconnecting them.
Please see example Disconnect all not available services.

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The following Cmdlets require a successful connection between the current application and the ERP system or powerGateServer.
For them to work properly, all the necessary ERP services (or a single CatalogService) must have been previously connected by the Connect-ERP cmdlet.

Entity transfer

Cmdlets for reading, adding, updating and removing OData entities:

Name	Description
Get-ERPObject	Returns a specific entity from the ERP-System.
Get-ERPObjects	Searches for entities depending on the passed arguments.
Update-ERPObject	Updates an existing entity on the ERP-System.
Add-ERPObject	Creates a new entity and transfers it to a ERP-System.
Remove-ERPObject	Deletes a specific entity from the ERP-System.
New-ERPObject	Returns a new default instance of the desired ERP entity.

Media exchange

Cmdlets for downloading, uploading and updating OData media files such as images, text files or even Autodesk file formats:

Name	Description
Add-ERPMedia	Uploads media files to the ERP-System.
Get-ERPMedia	Downloads media files from the ERP-System.
Update-ERPMedia	Updates media files on the ERP-System.