Sponsored Development: EDI Import/Export

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Project Team

Coordinator

Joel Stangeland

Functional Specs

Joel Stangeland

Developers

• Trifon Trifonov

Testers

• Trifon Trifonov
• Idalica

Sponsors

• Idalica

Requirements

• Outbound Processing
• From the document Invoice (Customer)

hit the "Submit EDI" button.

• Runs process that:
  • • Look up the DocumentType to see what "Doc Type" to use.
    • Look up the BPartner
    • Look up right "EDI Format", "EDI Processor" for BPartner and DocType.
    • Read the EDI Format and the document lines to construct the EDI document.
      • Get the data strings using ColumnID, and use Type to decide which separator to use.
      • Order them by position.
      • Truncate lengths, validate usage.
    • Using the info from C_EDIProcessor submit the EDI document.

• Inbound Processing
  • Use the scheduler to schedule a process that will poll according to the rules configured on C_EDIProcessor
  • Look up the Business Partner and EDI_DocType to determine which format to use to parse the file and which document type to create.

As an alternative, C_EDIProcessor could define a JMS queue to post to. Then we could manage the movement of the data with ServiceMix.

• Create new windows:

• Add Table: "C_EDI_DocType"

• • Fields: C_EDI_DocType_ID; Value, Name, Description, Help
  • Samples: (850 PO, 810 Invoice)

• Add to "Document Type" window:

• • Field: C_EDIFormat_ID

Add Tables for doc definitions.

• Add Table: "C_EDIFormat"

• • fields: C_EDIFormat_ID, EDI Format Name, Value, C_EDI_DocType_ID, AD_Table_ID, SegmentSeparator, FieldSeparator

• Add Table: "C_EDIFormat_Line"

• • fields: C_EDIFormat_ID, Position, Value, Name, Comments, Type(Element, Segment)

• Add Table: "C_EDIFormat_LineElement"

• • fields: C_EDIFormat_LineElement_ID, Position, Value, Name, IsMandatory, ElementType(Constant, Field), ConstValue, MinFieldLength

• Add Table: "C_EDIProcessorType"

This table makes flexible addition of new types in future.

• • fields: Value(http, ftp, svn, cvs), JavaClass (this is class which is responsible to handle upload of EDI document)

• Add Table: "C_EDIProcessor"

• • fields: Host, Account, Password Info, C_EDIProcessorType_ID

• Add Table: "C_BPartner_EDI"

• • fields: C_BPartner_ID, C_EDIFormat_ID, Inbound(Y,N), C_EDIProcessor_ID, C_DocType_ID