‎2008 Feb 24 7:30 AM
‎2008 Feb 24 8:50 AM
HI,
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 >>> 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.
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.
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.
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.
The workflow functions are not necessarily the "Right" way, but I believe them to be generaly safer.
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.
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.
I suppose people use what they feel comfortable with, and I happen to use a
combination of both.
Reward Points if found helpfull..
Cheers,
Chandra Sekhar.
‎2008 Feb 24 8:50 AM
HI,
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 >>> 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.
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.
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.
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.
The workflow functions are not necessarily the "Right" way, but I believe them to be generaly safer.
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.
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.
I suppose people use what they feel comfortable with, and I happen to use a
combination of both.
Reward Points if found helpfull..
Cheers,
Chandra Sekhar.