Creating PIDX Maps
The Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor enables you to map PIDX documents. The Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor generates a file layout for you, using the components and message types that you select. The Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor-generated PIDX map consists of groups, records, composites, and fields that are comparable to parameters that are defined by PIDX.
Sterling B2B Integrator's PIDX implementation conforms to the rules of the XML language 1.0 specification, as published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). However, to be more flexible, Sterling B2B Integrator diverges slightly from the W3C base 1.0 XML specification. Sterling B2B Integrator implementation enables you to do the following with XML:
- Specify the number of times that a group can repeat.
- Specify the number of times an element in a mixed group can repeat.
- Repeat an element (with a structure different from the structure of the original element) in a different part of the document.
Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor allows you to modify the map components by using the Deactivate, Promote, Split, Copy, Cut, and Paste functions.
You can create a map for all PIDX Standards Release messages that are preloaded when you download the Sterling B2B Integrator Map Editor. This includes the following:
- 21 schema (.XSD) files—with a total of 11 messages available for processing
- 2 common library schema (.XSD) files
The 11 schema (.XSD) files that are available for processing are as follows:
- Description
- PIDX message
- Field Ticket
- P11
- Field Ticket Response
- P12
- Invoice
- P21
- Invoice Response
- P22
- Order Create
- P31
- Order Change
- P32
- Order Response
- P33
- Quote Request
- P41
- Quote
- P42
- Quote Notification
- P43
- Request Requisition Return
- P51