Not all fields included in batch upload templates are accessible via ATTAINS web services

[hillarymarler]

Not all fields included in batch upload templates for ATTAINS are accessible via the web services (ex: Assessment Unit Comment, Assessment Comment). All of the fields non-accessible via web services that I have observed so far are "optional" fields.

This means that we could recreate batch upload templates that would work, but if a user uploaded them to ATTAINS, any data that had been included in those optional fields would be overwritten (NULL).

A couple of options to work around this:

• Require users to download the required data sets from ATTAINS and import them as part of their work flow (then ATTAINS web services would not be accessed, all necessary information would be obtained from these user-supplied files)
• Set up work flow to rely primarily on ATTAINS web services. Print a warning message to users that they will need to use an additional function to append comments and other non-public fields to their batch upload files. To run this helper function, they would need to download the appropriate data set from ATTAINS and use it as a param in the function.