topic Duplicate Idoc in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/duplicate-idoc/m-p/3427436#M823172 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>HI,</P><P></P><P></P><P>How can I get rid of a duplicate Idoc?</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:30:38 GMT Former Member 2008-02-24T07:30:38Z Duplicate Idoc https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/duplicate-idoc/m-p/3427436#M823172 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>HI,</P><P></P><P></P><P>How can I get rid of a duplicate Idoc?</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:30:38 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/duplicate-idoc/m-p/3427436#M823172 Former Member 2008-02-24T07:30:38Z Re: Duplicate Idoc https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/duplicate-idoc/m-p/3427437#M823173 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>HI,</P><P></P><P></P><P>A way which does not involve corrupting the I-Doc and leaving it lying around in an unprocessed status is to use BD87. Select the radio button for the appropriate current status, Insert the number(s) of the I-docs which are not required, untick the import in background box and then process. Use the path edit &gt;&gt;&gt; delete which then sets the I-Doc to status 68, so you know that it has been dealt with. There is nothing worse when looking for I-Docs which are at the wrong status than having lots of junk hanging around.</P><P></P><P>BD87 is exactly the same as processing through workflow, but is the way to get at the I-Doc where there is no message available, or where someone has messed around with the I-Doc and the message is now in their personal inbox. You need to take the same care in SO01 as in BD87 to select the right item to flag.</P><P></P><P>The end screen of workflow is the same as BD87, except that you cannot - as you rightly say, get there without a workitem being created via an Error.</P><P></P><P>If the IDoc has not been processed then it will have a status 64, and will hence not be in your Inbox anyway, although I would question the validity of an EDI / ALE process which requires the manual processing of IDocs.</P><P></P><P>The workflow functions are not necessarily the "Right" way, but I believe them to be generaly safer.</P><P></P><P>We have a situation at our company at present with IDocs, in that there are lots of old unprocessed IDocs sitting in the EDI tables.</P><P></P><P>If by some chance I was to go into BD87 and execute it with no parameters by mistake, the system will attempt to re-process ALL outstanding IDocs for that status.</P><P></P><P>I suppose people use what they feel comfortable with, and I happen to use a</P><P>combination of both.</P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG>Reward Points if found helpfull..</STRONG></P><P></P><P></P><P><STRONG>Cheers,</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>Chandra Sekhar.</STRONG></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:50:34 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/duplicate-idoc/m-p/3427437#M823173 Former Member 2008-02-24T08:50:34Z