ALE IDOC

[Former Member]

Hi

My requirement is to send some HR related data back & forth to a third party for some calculation.

Now is it justified to use to ALE here.

Third party company does not use SAP.

What is the role played by a port in partner rofile.

I.e. if i create a file port with a physical directory do i still have to create a RFC Dest.

What is the effect of creating a file port.

What is the use of giving physical directory while creating a port.

Can we follow the following steps.

Use a logical system already created for a client.

Assign a message type to it e.g. HROT_GE

Create partner profile and assign the file port in the receiver port

and then run the application to get the data in the file.

I am sure it does not make much sense, however the requirement is to create a file at the specified location and then the thrid party will pck it up from there and i dont know whether we need to use IDOCs for this or not.

A little insight into this will help me a great deal.

Thanks a ton.

SAM

[Former Member]

Hi

My requirement is to send some HR related data back & forth to a third party for some calculation.

Now is it justified to use to ALE here.

Third party company does not use SAP.

What is the role played by a port in partner rofile.

I.e. if i create a file port with a physical directory do i still have to create a RFC Dest.

What is the effect of creating a file port.

What is the use of giving physical directory while creating a port.

Can we follow the following steps.

Use a logical system already created for a client.

Assign a message type to it e.g. HROT_GE

Create partner profile and assign the file port in the receiver port

and then run the application to get the data in the file.

I am sure it does not make much sense, however the requirement is to create a file at the specified location and then the thrid party will pck it up from there and i dont know whether we need to use IDOCs for this or not.

A little insight into this will help me a great deal.

Thanks a ton.

SAM

[messier31]

<b>Role played by a port in partner profile :-</b>

Port act as communication point where data will be transferred. If send direclty to some other system, then Idoc will contain ip add, If stored in some file on application server, then its file port

<b>Ifi create a file port with a physical directory do i still have to create a RFC Dest</b>

If you want to trigger ur third party system automatically, when the file is created you have to create RFC destination and assign in outbound trigger tab of file port

<b>What is the effect of creating a file port</b>

The idoc file will be generated at the specified directory and then the third party will have to read the file.

<b>What is the use of giving physical directory while creating a port.</b>

This is place where your idoc will be stored. It is recommended to go for logical directory, so that you won't have to change ur port settings later if you want to change the directory where you want ur idoc file.

<b>Can we follow the following steps.</b>

Goto transaction SALE and follow steps in the sequence as they are.

<b>I dont know whether we need to use IDOCs for this or not.</b>

Before this make sure that ur third party agrees with the Idoc file format. If req is also to trigger the transfer, on change of HR data then u may use ALE.

If ur third party agrees then another option would be to write a custom program which could create file in agreed format. Third party can then use this file.

Hope it helps you.

Enjoy SAP.

Pankaj Singh

[Former Member]

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