First Step in Learning EDI (based on my experience)
I still remember many years back, when i first introduced and learning EDI stuff, standards, messages, and what EDI is all about. Throught Mr Google, 2 main resources helped me a lot. 1st is tutorial documents from GXS website, 2nd
Different between Sort and SortByKey
Below example to explain different between sort and sortByKey. Source and target message type: Source data is unsorted col1 and sorted col2. Both col1 and col2 is a pair of values. Target data should be sorted col1, and the col2 is
collapseContext and formatByExample to Convert Flat Structure to Tree Structure
Previous post useOneAsMany explained in easy example used an example to convert tree structure into flat structure by using useOneAsMany. This post will do the reverse, convert flat structure back to tree structure.The source message type is flat structure. The
useOneAsMany Explained in Easy Example
useOneAsMany is a very useful function to repeat header level-like data, as many time as needed at detail-level data, and still follow desired context change pattern. It is difficult to explain this function using words and sentences only, let’s understand
Handle Empty Context with mapWithDefault
mapWithDefault is useful to handle those cases where the source message field is expected, but might not be existed. Example in previous firstname lastname to fullname example, both firstname and lastname is expected to be concatenated.Before implement mapWithDefault:Case 1:Both firstname and
Simple Mapping to Combine Firstname and Lastname to Fullname
The objective of this post to demonstrated all the relevant common ESR objects required to establish a simple PI mapping. This simple PI mapping will map source message with 2 fields (firstname and lastnam) to target message (fullname).Here are brief
Search for IDOC Based on Content Criteria
There are many time we need to find out what are the idoc numbers, based on limited information available. Let’s say we want to search all DESADV idoc numbers within latest month, and with batch number 1517463000. It would be
Key Capabilities of SAP PI
Let’s us made an analogy between post office, forwarder service and SAP PI.Imagine a world that is without post office, postman, and post vehicles. No forwarder like FedEx, UPS, DHL. All yours mails and packages have to deliver to the
Simple Any File To File Scenario In ID Only Without ESR Objects
The simplest integration scenario I can think of is just simple data files copy, from one location to another. This can be easily done using any scripting language. Using SAP PI to do file copy only, is too over-kill. However,