Selecting business objects and services for ALE pass-through IDoc outbound processing

To specify the IDoc you want to process, you provide information in the external service wizard.

About this task

For the ALE pass-through IDoc interface, you can specify IDocs from a system or from a file, but the most likely reason for using the pass-through IDoc interface is to use a generic IDoc.

When you select a generic IDoc, you create one business-object definition that can apply to any IDoc at run time. This selection is helpful if you are processing many IDocs and do not want to create a separate business-object definition for each one.
If specify an IDoc from a system or file, you select a specific IDoc (for example, ORDERS05) during configuration. However, you can use a different IDoc during run time when you send the request to the SAP server.

Whichever method you choose, you can also specify the queue on the SAP server to which IDocs should be delivered.

Procedure

In the Find Objects in the Enterprise System window, indicate that you want to select a generic IDoc.
1. Expand ALE.
2. Click Generic IDoc .
Click the arrow button to add the generic IDoc to the Selected objects list.
When the Configuration Parameters window is displayed, indicate whether you want to have IDocs sent to a queue on the SAP server:
- If you do not want to send IDocs to a queue, click Cancel.
- If you want to send IDocs to a queue, perform the following steps:
  1. Click Use qRFC to serialize outbound data using a queue.
  2. Select a queue from the Select the queue name list.
- If your Data Record size to be less than the standard length (1063 characters) specified by SAP adapter, use a delimiter value in the Delimiter to be used for splitting multiple IDocs field. Any valid string without escape characters or either of the two escape characters, \n or \r\n can be used as a delimiter value. For more information on delimiters refer to Outbound processing for the ALE pass-through IDoc interface.
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Click OK.
Click Next.

Results

You have selected a generic IDoc.

What to do next

Set deployment properties and generate a module.