Reserves and returns one or more landing report IDs id's in the database for your user. Other users will not be given these numbers in their requests as they are reserved for your use. This is provided to help preserve id uniqueness of these IDsid's. It is encumbant upon the user application to prevent inappropriate landing report id re-usereuse.
All eLandings landings reports have a landing_report_id associated. Before assigning a landing report number to a new report, eLandings and all third-party users need to verify that the landing_report_id that they assign is not already in use by another report. Otherwise, previous report data will be lost and new report data may be corrupted.
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We cannot prevent users from illegally re-using reusing a landing report id. eLandings allows users to save their changes. It is very hard to determine if a change should be labeled illegal re-use reuse or normal user data changes.
This method returns a list of reserved landing report numbers as a string in XML format as defined by the XSD definition for number_info object in dataelements.xsd. If errors were encountered while retrieving the landing report in the web service, an empty number_info object will be returned containing a list of messages objects as defined by the dataelements.xsd definition for messages elements.
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