The SOAP API consists of a set of commands that a client can request a server to perform. Each command has a request format and a response format.
The description of each command includes the following information:
Unless otherwise specified, all of the XML elements in the request format are required.
Many commands use a common subset of XML elements. Rather than repeating the descriptions for each command, the contents of the elements are described in API parameters.
Where the format refers to "Criteria for this object type" or "Data for this object type", the elements allowed depends on the object type. For details, see API object types.
The server performs these security checks only if the system option for security checking is activated. For details, see SysOpts (system options).