Step by Step Guide: XML File 2 XML File Scenario: Part II
This is basically
the continuation of my earlier blog Step by Step Guide: XML File 2 XML File Scenario: Part I. Click on “*Integration
Directory*”
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Just fill the values and press “Create”.
Then you need to save it in order to see the Configuration Scenario
on the left hand side.
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Did you remember what we did in SLD ? Yes,
we created Product , Software
Component, Technical System and Business
System.
[Product | #Product]
and Software Component is used in Design Part
and here we are going to use the Business system ?
Why not Technical system ? My Favorite Question?
If you remember correctly when
we create the Business system in SLD we selected
the Technical system from the drop down menu means if you are
going to use the Business system then indirectly you are linked
with the Technical System.
In Design also we have imported
Software Component
not the Product because When we create the
Software Component we have selected the Product .
So, they both are linked.
How Business systems are linked
with Product?
We selected the Product when we created
the Technical System. So your Business Systems are linked with the
Product. Also the objects that you have designed in the Design part
are linked with the Software Component which is inturn linked with
the Product and Product linked with the Technical system and Technical
system linked with the Business system.
Huuuuuuufffffffff! Soo much
linked. Where were we? – We are in the Configuration part
and next step is to import the Business System? Right click the
Business system and select “Assign Business System”
this will opens up a wizard.+*
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First
screen is Introduction (Sorry no theory as I promised) just say “Continue”
button and then it will ask for Party – Sorry no Party say “Continue”
button. Select the Business system and press “Finish”
button.
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Next step Right Click on the Communicate Channel and say “New”.
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Now configure your Sender Communicate channel. First Click on the
Help button to select the Adapters – Select “File“
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Then
select “Sender” and give the
All other are default
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Folder path should be XI Server system path not your system folder
path. As I have installed it on my machine that is the reason I
have given my C: path but If you are having XI server not
on your machine then create the folder in the XI Server and give
the Local path.
Its logically make sense that
from where XI will pick up the file, give that path and check that
can Adapter access that path from XI server. I mean a share drive.
Did u understand?
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Done! Next is “Receiver Determination”
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Did I told u that XI makes our job easier then here it is the proof.
Just use the help button to select the Service means your
Business system and in the Interface box it will present you the
correct interface just select. Before closing, match the following
input as below.
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Sender Business system, Sender Interface, Sender Namespace (This |
And to this sender information we need to map the Receiver Business
system. In order to do that select the Help option from the “Service”
option in “Configured Receivers”
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After selecting the Receiver Business System. Click on “Save”
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Simple as it shows. “Save”
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Are we in the same Boat?
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Activate the scenarios same steps as we have done in the Design
part. You need to move to “Change List”
tab in order to see the activate option.
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These were the question when I did my first Hello world scenario |
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Now XI will be a Scheduler job which tries to search for the file
in the “Sender Folder” what is this? This is the folder
(C:XI_FILESSENDER) that we have configured
in the Sender Communication Channel and
also we gave the file name to pick up. As the file is not there
so there will not be any output in the Receiver Folder (C:XI_FILESRECEIVER)
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So
how can I provide the file to XI? You need to create a file +*xi_xmlfile_input.dat
+in the folder +C:XI_FILESSENDER*+
But what is the content. Content should be XML data. But where can
I get it? I will show you.
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Open your Design: Integration Builder and open you Software Component
and then open the Mapping Objects under it open Message Mappings
select the mm_mapping . This will open
the mapping program .
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Copy this and paste it into the file C:XI_FILESSENDERxi_xmlfile_input.dat
only the xml contents and now wait for the XI to pick the file.
Once XI picks the file then it will delete the file.
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How to debug if anything went wrong? Login into the XI server and
type the TCode “SXMB_MONI”
this will take u to the message monitoring screen. Just select the
first option then press “Execute”.
One more screen opens up Just Press “Execute”
again.
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Regards
shekar Chandra
I think shrini blog is up-to-the-mark as compare to the other blogs for the same scenerio ;). Also this is from start to end, but what I found in others blog(When I was trying to create File to File Scenerio) that all steps are not mention;-) that give confusion nothing else:-)
So shrini really you put your best efforts I will appreciate you, if you can deliver/post similar blog for other complex scenerio.
Sorry for discouragers and Thanks for encouragers:-)
Regards,
Farooq.
Thanx for explaining the file2file scenario from defining TS,BS,etc...even though it is repeated i cud get information regarding SLD and how to define products,TS,BS,SWC.
Thanx,
Prasanthi.
Try to write blogs on new technologies( that were not covered by previous bloggers).
You blog is really cool.
Why? It explains right from the SLD ,the steps invloved. It surely is good with a clear understanding which you have about XI.
Thanks
Can we get some blog from you explaing scenarios like IDOC to File or File to IDOC.
It would be really appreciated if you post your blogs in similar fashion as you have done before.
Thanks
Thanks for your comments!
Sure, Just keep an eye on this area. You have lots of guddies to come on Step by Step guide. My Ideas is to make this place open for all scenarios in XI in detail level with more visual and less text. OfCource! Interesting.
As you have asked. I will let you know some of upcoming guides from me:
JDBC-JDBC
IDOC-IDOC
HTTP-IDOC
WEBSERVICE-IDOC
and many more ....
Work in Progress and Srini is still working. 🙂
Thanks
Srini
Welcome to Exchange Infrastructure SDN blogs. The blog you have posted is nice and has good information, but the topic you picked suits more for a How to guide to a specific buisness scenario. XI blog topics are more of a specific area, where members have not seen or encountered that specific feature before. Check some of the exisitng blogs from various authors on those topics.
If you are planning to come up with guides as you mentioned in your response above, i would strongly encourage them to write and publish them as How to guides rather than a blog.
I would also advice to search the topic on SDN blog forum and see if anyone has written that topic and published it before to avoid any duplicates.
As an XI moderator on SDN, i encourage the members to share and spread their knowledge via blogs and how to guides, and make sure that topic is not published before.
All the best....
Thanks
Prasad
Thanks for your suggestion..
I am not at all disappointed by the bad comments nor encouraged by the good comments because what you are seeing right now is what I want when I come to SDN. There are blogs which has very few screen short and not all the steps described till end.
This is purely directed to the New Babies and not for person who know what is FILE - FILE.
This is so crazy that people can't even understand that things can be made much more easier than earlier one. If they dont want duplicate then Hey! Lets Compare with the OLD Blogs and decide which one is good and lets delete the other Blogs.
Things can be made much easier and what has been written earlier may not be THE BEST.
Anyways, I am moving all my contents into the Wiki Page and Lets Meet there.
Thanks
Srini
If things can be made easier, I want to see them in 1 place.
Cheers
Cheers
I beg you not to flood SDN with redundency...
May gods (SDN Moderators) save SDN from the wrath of srinivas...!!
Preparing the SLD
Setting up the IR
Setting up the ID
Adapter specific pages
Testing
Debugging
etc
This may sound harsh, but the charm of blogging may be lost by doing so..?
Could you plz explain how to create the folders for input and output in xi, and how we can link them to our system C:\ and how we can test the program
Thanks.
I really appreciate you for not bothering
the bad comments and going forward to share your
knowledge, which can be very much help full for
beginners and those who wanted to know the
steps right from the beginning to end.
This blog is is so much useful for me
in fact to many of my friends, those who are APAPers and are just shifting into XI.
We all support you to publish much more blogs like
this to other scenarios like
IDoc to FILE, RFC to FILE or vice versa.
Also can you please tell us -
In a single scenario how to send and get the data back. ( like a synchronous mode )
for ex: a material and its information like
plant, s.org... are sent to a 3rd party system
( where price is being maintained ) and we should get price for that material back to our SAP system.
can you please explain, if not with all steps,
please let us know by explaining how we should proceed with XI connections and how to design the interfaces.
Best Regards,
Kiran.
I am a beginner in XI, your blog helped me to learn some informative things about XI, carry on with your blog
Regards,
Pavithra
This is a gread blog but if your are a newbie like me and just finish your 7.0 XI intallation you have to read this doc
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/8023e00d-0fe5-2910-bd85-ce11e280c4de
and follow al the steps of SAP Note 836200.
If not, you are not going to see the adapters in the channels part.!!!!
Srinivas I am new in XI and this blog helpd me a lot, but here in this blog also, I am stuck up at a place and will realy appritiaet you if you clearfy my doubt,
this is at,where we give location of sender and receiver directory in communication channel.
I am confused which path should i give there, of XI server or local machine?
if I put the files on local machine will it work? I tried that but not working,
SO is there some trigerring process need to be congigured so that XI will search for file in sender folder, i guess this all questions must be very basic for you but as I told I am new in XI. So PLease help me with this...
Thanks
Hi Brijesh,