Hello again
It's still not very clear, and unfortunately I dont know how to explain it better but I can try and deepen my examples a little.
1. We're looking to implement Coveo as our search engine. One of the benefits (of many) with Coveo is that they can search across several repositories. Let's say that we're searching across the TKB, a SFdC repository and Youtube.
In this example, will ONE search result in ONE API call, or three?
2. Say that a portion of the user settings are on the Lithium Database, but another subset are tied to different areas of our backend SFdC database. Will an update in X amount of the SFdC (perhaps in different places within our SFdC instance) result in ONE call, or will it be several depending on where the information have to go in our SFdC instance?
3. If we implement the Case Portal functionality in Lithium and a user updates for example the license information in one table, the version number in another table and also putting in a comment in the case. In doing so it updates the status of the case in yet another table. All in SFdC. Is this ONE API call to salesforce, or several to all the different areas of our Salesforce instance.
Thanks again for your help, and sorry for being to thick headed :)
-Matt