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Author's profile photo Sravya Talanki

Outbound Idoc’s – Work around using “Party”?

We are currently involved in pushing Idoc’s from SAP IS-U with partner type ‘SP’ to file server (partner type ‘LS’). It highlights the use of “party” in this context and how it has helped our project in configuring outbound Idoc scenarios.

The mismatch of the partner type always resulted in a runtime error “ Unable to convert ALE service” at the receiver determination. Since third party systems created in SLD are always identified as partner type ‘LS’, we have to introduce the term “Party” to just fool around XI by generating the alternative partner profile at runtime.

Entire work around is achieved by creating the dummy party with the sender partner profile in the integration directory. I don’t know why it works but it works! I edited the images for confidentiality purposes.

Configuration Steps in the Integration Directory:

1.Create a Party with the name of sender partner profile “Party X” by clicking the Party object under the configuration scenario.

Create Party

2.Specify the agency scheme in the identifiers tab as shown below.

Identifier Tab

3.Assign the SAP IS-U business system, which is created in the SLD in the services as shown below.

Service Tab

Once the above step is done select the party name in the receiver determination, interface determination objects and receiver agreements as shown below.

Receiver Determination:

Receiver Determination with Party

Interface Determination:

Interface Determination with Party

Receiver Agreement:

Receiver Agreement with Party

With this configuration we are able to successfully send Idocs to our file server. This is just a work around I tried in my project. Suggestions are always welcome if there are any other better options.

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      Author's profile photo Stefan Grube
      Stefan Grube
      Hi Sravya,

      this is not a work around, it is the way to do it.
      See in the manual:

      "Alternative Identifiers for Communication Using the IDoc Adapter"

      http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/81/104bb1fbab254c8644877c7f856bbf/content.htm

      Your step-by-step description is very good and will makes clearer, how IDOC partners are handled.

      Regards
      Stefan