Folding of segments and segment groups such as Hierarchical Levels (HL’s).
But, these simple “tricks” certainly have their limitations and would be enhanced by better support for the format within NP++.Ī few of the features that would be desired in an EDI implementation for ANSI X12 documents (I don’t currently work with EDIFACT documents, so I’ll just focus on the ANSI X12 structure) would include: I’ve even created a registry file for Windows I can import which creates explicit associations for EDI files with NP++ (and assigns a recognizable “X12” icon to these files to help pick them out in a directory view). I’ve also used and “tweaked” the XML style information provided in an answer on StackOverflow to the question about X12 syntax highlighting for Notepad++? for my own purposes, and it works well enough when trying to get a quick look at an X12 document. I realize that, for many, this is likely a low-priority issue, but for many of us who use NP++ and deal with EDI transactions on a regular basis, adding more full-featured support for these documents would be tremendously beneficial. See the status of the new IDoc in WE02.I’ve seen occasional and “generic” requests for some built-in support for documents using either or both of these formats for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), as well as some proposed progress towards implementing such support (e.g., issue #6173 on GitHub). If a partner profile (WE20) exists, it will be processed after executing the function (or collected for later processing).
To create the control record, click on the first line in the editor and enter the data as needed (of course, change the name to your IDoc’s message type. You also need to create the control record (I don’t go into details of this here as this is required knowledge about the standard IDoc processing and can be found elsewhere).The test tool displays your IDoc, you can also change it here.Enter the path where you’ve uploaded the file and the filename.Use t.code WE19 and select “File as Template”.
You can also use AL11 which displays a list of all available files.
Download the exported file to your local machine using Transaction Code: CG3Y (or FM ARCHIVFILE_SERVER_TO_CLIENT as per a reader’s comment).Enter a path on the server (use transaction AL11 to find a suitable path) and a filename.Uncheck the checkbox “start inbound processing of file now”.But it’s all right and you can go ahead.) You’re going to write a file to the file system, but the function is called inbound file. Click on “inbound file” (note: this is actually confusing.Load an existing Idoc (see we02) via idoc number.
We firsts export an existing IDoc from source system, download the file to the local computer and then upload it to another system:ġ How to export a flat IDoc file in SAP ERP: Please note that this is only for manual testing purposes for single cases and not intended to serve as any kind of IDoc interface. I’d like to share this here in a step-by-step guide. I haven’t found much help from searching online or in SAP docs but enough to put something together that worked at the end. It seemed an easy task, but turned out to be quite tricky.
The idea was to export the IDoc on system A to a file and then import it in system B from that file. So we needed a way to export and import an IDoc. The two systems were in two different environments and not planned to be connected network wise. I have recently come across the need to “manually” move an IDoc for testing purposes form one SAP system to another.