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What is this site?

  • This website is Hornbill's new product documentation website and is currently under development.
  • It is intended that all existing and future public-facing documentation we produce will be available to search, browse and share.
  • Hornbill's current documentation is available at Hornbill Wiki but over time this content will be migrated to this documentation site.
  • Please feel free to have a look around at any time.

Why has Hornbill created this site?

  • Hornbill's products have moved on considerably since we introduced it almost 10 years ago. At the time, the MediaWiki tool was sufficient, but we have outgrown it.
  • Our customers are more enterprise focused and more self-sufficient than ever before, so for 2023 and beyond we have established a new documentation platform and team to drive our documentation initiative forwards.
  • We are aiming to deprecate the use of Hornbill Wiki for most Hornbill related documentation.
  • We want to enable our growing partner network with product resources and information, documentation beyond our Wiki approach is required.
  • We could definitely do with some help, and may even pay for some! If you have domain knowledge and would like to help, please check out our Hornbill Docs Contributor Guide and contact the Hornbill docs team at docs@hornbill.com.

What will this site be good for?

  • Community contribution will be facilitated, encouraged, and most welcome.
  • High quality documentation, will be kept up to date as rapidly as our products evolve.
  • Real-time content search and discovery.
  • Articles organized into books, books into libraries, creating a more natural and logical structure to our documentation.
  • Legacy API documentation and various other documentation sources will all be consolidated into a single unified documentation system.
  • Documentation available in browser as well as printable/viewable as PDF on demand.
  • Personalized documentation experience, allowing dark/light mode, article subscriptions, social media sharing and other useful features.
  • Almost all publicly available documentation on docs.hornbill.com will be open-source and available to fork on GitHub, allowing customers to derive their own custom documentation around Hornbill products should they wish to.

What is the timeline for this site?

  • We have taken the decision to publish and make available early, there is very little content at this time.
  • As and when we have completed/usable documentation, it will be published here.
  • We have a host of additional features we wish to add over time, so please watch this space.
  • We expect most of our existing documentation should be reviewed/migrated to docs.hornbill.com over the coming months.
  • The documentation project will be ongoing, will continue to expand, evolve and improve day-by-day.

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Items / Get

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Operation Information

Retrieves an Item’s details from Xero.

This is a Premium Integration.

Authentication

This operation requires authentication, the details of which can be securely stored on your instance in a KeySafe Key of type Xero.

To create a key of this type:

  • In the Configuration area of your Hornbill instance, navigate to Platform Configuration > Security > KeySafe;
  • Click on the + Create New Key button;
  • On the resulting Create New Key form, choose Xero in the Type pick list;
  • Give the Xero KeySafe key a Title (this is the name / identifier for the Xero account as you will see it when using the cloud automation node in your workflows);
  • Optionally populate the Description field;
  • Click the Create Key button to create your new key;
  • Once the Key is created, you will need to connect to the target service, and your account, in order to authorize the connector app access to the listed operations. Click the Connect button and you will be redirected to the service provider in a popup window;
  • Log in to your account, and then you will be prompted to review the options you are authorizing the Hornbill connector to be allowed to perform using the chosen account;
  • Accept the review and you will be returned to your KeySafe key.

Revoking Access

If at any point you wish to revoke access to any of the above accounts from your Hornbill instance, just hit the Revoke button in the relevant KeySafe key(s).

Warning

This will revoke the rights of any existing Cloud Automation Node in your Hornbill Workflows that are using the revoked Xero account, so you will need to manage these workflows accordingly.

Input Parameters

Display Name ID Type Description Required Supported Values
Tenant ID tenantId string The Tenant ID for your system this is essential for Xero API Calls, please select the correct Tenant from the selction provided. Yes None provided
Item ID or Item Code itemID string Please enter the item ID or Code Yes None provided

Output Parameters

Display Name ID Type Description
Error Message error string Any errors returned by the Xero API
Status Code status string The status of the operation: ok / failed
Providing Organization Name providerName string The Name of organization Providing the Item Searched.
Item ID id string The ID of the Item that was Searched
Item Code code string The Specific Item code of the Item that was Searched
Item Description itemDescription string An addition Item description providing more informatin about an Item.
Purchase Description purchaseDescription string Additional Information about the Purchasing of this Item
Purchase Unit Price purchaseUnitPrice string The price this Item was Purchased at.
Purchase COGS Account Code purchaseAccountCode string The Account Code the Item was purchased under.
Purchase Tax Type purchaseTaxType string The amount of Tax added to the Item on Purchase
Sales Unit Price salesUnitPrice string The Sale Price of the Item.
Sales Account Code salesAccountCode string The Sales Account Code associated with the Item.
Sales Tax Code salesTaxType string The Tax associated with the Sale of this Item.
Item Name name string The Name of the Item.
Tracked Item Inventory isTracked string Does this Item have tracking enabled against it?
Inventory Asset Code inventoryAsset string The specfic Asset Code associated with the item.
Item Quantity On Hand quantity string The Current Quantity of this Item that is available
Has Been Sold isSold string Has this Item been sold in the past?
Has Been Purchased isPurchase string Has this item been purchased in the past?
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