topic Re: BASIC TYPE VS MESSAGE TYPE in Application Development and Automation Discussions

BASIC TYPE VS MESSAGE TYPE

Former Member — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:47:56 GMT

Hi all,

Can i know wats the difference between Basic type and Message type??

wat s the use of having both this types????

Re: BASIC TYPE VS MESSAGE TYPE

sailaja_vadlamudi — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:32:22 GMT

Hi,

Idoc is an intermediate document ,and it is an set of segments used to exchange data between systems.

The idocs are of two types :i) Basic Type

ii) Extension type

An idoc type specifies the structure of the data .

Message type specifies the meaning of the data.

Sail

Re: BASIC TYPE VS MESSAGE TYPE

Former Member — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:03:54 GMT

hi praveen,

I dont want to go technical...

We will give this info in partner profiles..

here..

msg type is : orders

basic type: purchage orders or sales order...etc

msg type says the meaning of communication and basic type(idoc) says actual data type:)

Re: BASIC TYPE VS MESSAGE TYPE

Former Member — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:09:23 GMT

Message Type:

A message type represents the application message exchanged between R/3 systems and R/3 and an external system. A message type characterises the data sent across systems and relates to the structure of the data called an IDOC type.

Diff. with IDOC type

An IDoc type specifies the structure of the data.

A message type specifies the meaning of the data

Diff. b/w IDOC type and IDOC

An IDoc type is the definition of a specific data structure.

An IDoc is an actual instance of data based on an IDoc type. Therefore, there can be many IDocs created from a single IDoc type.

Every idoc type will have Message Type.

It mean Idoc will be recognised By message type.

For ex : MATMAS03 is idoc type, and its message type MATAMS.

There are different message type for every master data. suppose for vendor master CREMAS is the message type, for customer mast DEBMAS like these there many message type for other type of master data.

To recognise the particular idoc, we use message types.

We82 is the TCode where IDoC type is attached to Mesage tYpe.

Refer to this related thread

Check these links.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://edocs.bea.com/elink/adapter/r3/userhtm/ale.htm#1008419

http://www.netweaverguru.com/EDI/HTML/IDocBook.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale.pdf

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale2.pdf

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/idoc_abap.htm