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  • 1.  Patch operation for updating Contact Medium

    Posted Mar 29, 2019 07:13
    Hi All,

    ContactMedium object can be a list of customer contacts,  example:

    Private Mobile= 1567745666
    Private Mobile= 8765578344
    Private Fixed - 020865577
    Office Mobile = 8876544468

    Now if I want to update one of my private mobile number's how can I do this as ContactMedium does not have a unique ID.
    Does it mean I have to always define the type such that it is always unique within a contact medium characteristic as depicted below?

    type = Private Mobile1
    type = Private Mobile2

    Can you please advice?

    Thank you


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    Warm Regards,
    Suman Bagde

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  • 2.  RE: Patch operation for updating Contact Medium

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Apr 10, 2019 16:03
    Hi Suman
    This is a very good point, possibly we need to consider adding some identification or index to ContactMedium.
    The Open API team is looking at it, as per a JIRA issue that I have opened due to your question. If you are a project member you can see the JIRA at https://projects.tmforum.org/jira/browse/AP-1289

    Hope it helps

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    Jonathan Goldberg
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  • 3.  RE: Patch operation for updating Contact Medium

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Feb 07, 2022 11:43
    HI @Jonathan Goldberg,

    I am responding to this old discussion as I have a similar questions on TMF632 Party -> contactMedium schema.

    ​The conactMedium schema do refer to "$id": "#ContactMedium" and can be used for "some identification or index to ContactMedium" as you mentioned:

    ContactMedium.schema.json

    where as contactMedium schema within TMF632 Party lack this $id.

    Is there any way to enhance contactMediaum schema inside TMF632 Party and make it at par with contactMedium defined schema.

    Thanks and regards,






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    Sukhdev Singh Matharu
    Vodafone GmbH
    All views are personal and don't represent my employer.
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  • 4.  RE: Patch operation for updating Contact Medium

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Feb 07, 2022 14:29
    Hi Sukhdev
    I've raised it with my colleagues in the Open API team. We'll have to see what happens.

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    Jonathan Goldberg
    Amdocs Management Limited
    Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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  • 5.  RE: Patch operation for updating Contact Medium

    Posted Feb 08, 2022 10:23
    From my understanding a contact medium never is a party. A medium is the description of a technical transport mechanism (ie. mail, email, phone, ...). So relating it to a party is not the correct semantic way to deal with that entity.

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    Ralph Steins
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  • 6.  RE: Patch operation for updating Contact Medium

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Feb 08, 2022 13:26
    Hi Ralph
    You are absolutely correct that a contact medium is not a party. But it's a way that the party can be contacted, and so is "owned" by the party, hence it is modeled as an embedded entity within Party (and similarly within other entities in the TMF Open API data model).

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    Jonathan Goldberg
    Amdocs Management Limited
    Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
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