ALE

[Former Member]

hi friends,

My questions are as follows -

1.please tell me about message control and its purpose.

2.please tell me about stand alone program.

3.can we write our own code for sending data?

4.what is idoc programming?

5.what is change pointer method and what is the purpose.

6.what is the use of filter and conversion how to do this?

Thanx and Regards,

-Pankaj singh

[former_member404244]

Hi Pankaj,

1>message control is one of the method to generate an outbound idoc.Usually transactional data such as purchase orders,sales orders we will go for this method.

2>Standalone program is nothing but to create an iodc using Function module ->MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE.

3>YES WE CAN WRITE our own code for creating an idoc,this scenario comes if SAP's standard idoc couldn't serve our purpose.here evrything should be customized.

5>Change pointer method is also another method to trigger an outbound idoc.this will come if we want to trigger an idoc for a change in some fields of the table.

6>Filtering is nothing but to filter the unwanted infornmation.For example if we use standard idoc it will display all the fields ,but i want to populate only some of the fields ,we can achieve this by segment filtering.

regards,

Nagaraj

[Former Member]

Hi,

Give me ur mail id, I shall send you a nice document on ALE.

<b>

Change pointer method</b>: Changes done in one system gets reflected in other system.

The following steps explain about how do the changes reflect in case of two clients ( 800 and 810).

<b>Activating Change Pointers</b>

Change pointer generation has to be activated at both the

general level and message type.

1) Goto BD61, check the checkbox Change pointers activated - generally.

2) Save

3) Goto BD50, Choose the row for message type MATMAS, and check mark the corresponding field

4) Save

Converting change pointers to IDOCs

• Create, change or mark for deletion materials using

transaction MM01, MM02, or MM06.

• Execute transaction BD21

• Enter Message type MATMAS

• Execute

You can see tha changes gets reflected in 810 client that are done in 800 client.

Regards,

Sailaja.

[Former Member]

Hi Sailaja,

Please note down my mail ID

pankajsingh020@hotmail.com

thanx & regards

-pankaj singh

[Former Member]

Hi,

for learning ALE/idoc check the foll links,

http://www.sapgenie.com/whitepapers/ale.htm

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

http://www.sappoint.com/abap.html

http://www.sapbrain.com/TUTORIALS/TECHNICAL/ALE_tutorial.html

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCMIDALEIO/BCMIDALEIO.pdf

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCMIDALEPRO/BCMIDALEPRO.pdf

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/CABFAALEQS/CABFAALEQS.pdf

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/CABFAALEHR/CABFAALEHR_ALE_QS.pdf

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/ECPCA/ECPCA_ALE_154.pdf

Please reward for the same.

[Former Member]

hi

kindly send me some information regarding i docs and ALE.

regards

chaitanya

[Former Member]

Hello sailaja could u also send the documents to my mail id k_nreddy@yahoo.com

Thanking you in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi Pankaj,

1. Message control - Used for transfering Transaction data like PO etc

3. You can write own code to send data. eg using FM MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE.

4. IDOC programming is nothing but programming in ABAP to send IDOC or receive IDOC. Tables used are EDIDC, EDID4 and EDIDS

5. Change pointer is a concept used to record the creation of records or changes to the existing record. The tables used are BDCP and BDCPS

6. Filter is used in the Customer distribution model. Tcode BD64. This is used to filter the records and send the data. Eg. You create Purchase orders. But based on the purchasing group it has to go to different Buyers. Then use the filter concept to send the data. The respective Buyers will get records pertaining to thier purchasing group.

Regards

Arun