ElementCategory
Overview
This is a dimension entity which contains basic information about element categories.
Which element categories are included?
This entity includes all the categories for elements (e.g. resource, activity).
Usage in itslearning
- This entity is not used in the Itslearning application, this is a technical table
Notes
- The entity shows the latest version of each element category.
- LearningItems are grouped into ElementCategories like Resources, Activities and other
Relationships
ElementCategory is linked to:
Diagram

Entity Details
Name | Data type | Nullable | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
ElementCategoryId | Edm.Int32 | false | Id of an element category |
ElementCategoryTitle | Edm.String | Element category title | |
T_ModifiedDate | Edm.DateTime | false | Date and time the entity was last modified in data warehouse |
Request body
URI
https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories?$top=10Response body - XML
XML response
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xml:base="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"> <id>http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/</id> <title /> <updated>2017-08-29T13:25:03Z</updated> <link rel="self" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories" /> <entry> <id>https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(1)</id> <category term="Itslearning.Reporting.Data.Models.ElementCategory" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" /> <link rel="edit" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(1)" /> <link rel="self" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(1)" /> <link rel="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/related/LearningItems" type="application/atom+xml;type=feed" title="LearningItems" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(1)/LearningItems" /> <title /> <updated>2017-08-29T13:25:03Z</updated> <author> <name /> </author> <content type="application/xml"> <m:properties> <d:ElementCategoryId m:type="Edm.Int32">1</d:ElementCategoryId> <d:ElementCategoryTitle>Resource</d:ElementCategoryTitle> </m:properties> </content> </entry> <entry> <id>https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(2)</id> <category term="Itslearning.Reporting.Data.Models.ElementCategory" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" /> <link rel="edit" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(2)" /> <link rel="self" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(2)" /> <link rel="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/related/LearningItems" type="application/atom+xml;type=feed" title="LearningItems" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(2)/LearningItems" /> <title /> <updated>2017-08-29T13:25:03Z</updated> <author> <name /> </author> <content type="application/xml"> <m:properties> <d:ElementCategoryId m:type="Edm.Int32">2</d:ElementCategoryId> <d:ElementCategoryTitle>Activity</d:ElementCategoryTitle> </m:properties> </content> </entry> <entry> <id>https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(3)</id> <category term="Itslearning.Reporting.Data.Models.ElementCategory" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" /> <link rel="edit" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(3)" /> <link rel="self" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(3)" /> <link rel="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/related/LearningItems" type="application/atom+xml;type=feed" title="LearningItems" href="https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/ElementCategories(3)/LearningItems" /> <title /> <updated>2017-08-29T13:25:03Z</updated> <author> <name /> </author> <content type="application/xml"> <m:properties> <d:ElementCategoryId m:type="Edm.Int32">3</d:ElementCategoryId> <d:ElementCategoryTitle>n/a</d:ElementCategoryTitle> </m:properties> </content> </entry></feed>Response body - JSON (default output format)
JSON response
{ "odata.metadata":"https://reporting.itslearning.com/odata/engine7/$metadata#ElementCategories","value":[ { "ElementCategoryId":1,"ElementCategoryTitle":"Resource" },{ "ElementCategoryId":2,"ElementCategoryTitle":"Activity" },{ "ElementCategoryId":3,"ElementCategoryTitle":"n/a" } ]}