Different capbilities of Vault API between different vault versions

By Daniel Du

As you know, We have different flavors of vault 2014( Basic, Workgroup, Professional), the difference of different vault version can be find here in product page. But I am always asked whether one specific API(or simple requirement) can be used on specific vault version, For example, does vault basic support adding UDP? I understand that customer always wants to minimize their investment.

For the most part, the differences in the APIs between the various flavors of Vault are made by including or excluding different supported services. The “Web Services” article in the SDK documentation, which gives an overview of all the different web services that make up the Vault web service API, has information about which services are available in which flavors of Vault. I make follow table for convenience.

	Vault Basic	Vault Workgroup	Vault Professional
AdminService Contains methods for manipulating users and groups.	✓	✓	✓
AuthService A service for authenticating to the Vault server.	✓	✓	✓
DocumentService Contains methods for manipulating files and folders within a vault.	✓	✓	✓
FilestoreService A service for uploading and downloading binary file data.	✓	✓	✓
FilestoreVaultService Information on the Knowledge Vaults.	✓	✓	✓
KnowledgeVaultService Contains methods for getting information about the vaults and options settings.	✓	✓	✓
InformationService Contains methods to determine information about the server and supported products	✓	✓	✓
IdentificationService Provides the locations of the data server and the filestore server.	✓	✓	✓
ItemService Contains methods for manipulating items.	✓	✓	✓
BehaviorService Contains methods for manipulating behaviors on Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
CategoryService Contains methods for manipulating categories.	Limited	✓	✓
JobService Contains methods for manipulating the job queue.	Limited	✓	✓
LifeCycleService Contains methods for manipulating lifecycles on Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
PropertyService Contains methods for manipulating properties on Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
ReplicationService Contains methods for transfering ownerhsip between workgroups.	Limited	✓	✓
RevisionService Contains methods for manipulating revision values and schemes for Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
SecurityService Contains methods for setting security on specific Entities.	Limited	✓	✓
ReplicationService Contains methods for transfering ownerhsip between workgroups.	Limited	Limited	✓
DocumentServiceExtensions Contains more methods for manipulating files and folders within a vault.	-	✓	✓
ChangeOrderService Contains methods for creating and manipulating change orders.	-	-	✓
CustomEntityService Contains methods for creating and manipulating custom entities.	-	-	✓
ForumService Contains methods for posting messages.	-	-	✓
ItemService Contains methods for manipulating items.	-	-	✓
PackageService Contains methods for importing and exporting item data	-	-	✓
WinAuthService Contains methods for logging into and out of vaults using Windows credentials.	-	-	✓

(Please refer to the document in Vault SDK for more information about these services.)

 

Furthermore, we do provide a way to check which flavor of the server you are connected to. The web service API’s InformationService has a GetSupportedProducts() method which can be used to see which flavors of Vault the server supports. Alternatively, the VDF layer of the SDK provides some helpful features for checking if you’re working with the correct level of Vault. On the VDF’s IVaultConnectionManagerService, you can specify product requirements for your application using the SetProductRequirements() method. This will prevent your application from allowing a connection to be established to a Vault that doesn’t meet your applications minimum features. Also, you can use the same VDF server to check if a specific server supports certain versions of Vault with the IsProductSupported() method. Please read the SDK documentation for more details on these methods.