IDOC_Material

[Former Member]

HI..

Can anyone please tell me the best avaliable resources for learning the IDOCS...write from the basics....?

Thanks.

Nicky.S

[Former Member]

www.sappoint.com

--here u can find the ppts and basic seetings for ALE

<b>http://sappoint.com/presentation.html</b>

www.sapgenie.com

<b>http://www.sapgenie.com/ale/index.htm</b>

and also u can get lots of info from ABAP forum by giving search for ALE or IDOC.

Thanks

Eswar

[Former Member]

Hi,

Give me your mail id, i can send some materials..

Regards

vijay

[Former Member]

ALE/ RDI Idocs by Arvind Nagpal is a very good book for studying the basics of Idoc...Do read it...It will help you understand the concepts

[Former Member]

Hi Meena,

An IDoc is simply a data container that is used to exchange information between any two processes that can understand the syntax and semantics of the data...

1.IDOCs are stored in the database. In the SAP system, IDOCs are stored in database tables.

2.IDOCs are independent of the sending and receiving systems.

3.IDOCs are independent of the direction of data exchange.

The two available process for IDOCs are

<b>Outbound Process

Inbound Process</b>

AND There are basically two types of IDOCs.

<b>Basic IDOCs

Basic IDOC type defines the structure and format of the business document that is to be exchanged between two systems.

Extended IDOCs

Extending the functionality by adding more segments to existing Basic IDOCs.</b>

To Create Idoc we need to follow these steps:

<b>

Create Segment ( WE31)

Create Idoc Type ( WE30)

Create Message Type ( WE81)

Assign Idoc Type to Message Type ( WE82)</b>

regards

satesh

[Former Member]

Hello,

IDoc (for intermediate document) is a standard data structure for electronic data interchange (EDI) between application programs written for the popular SAP business system or between an SAP application and an external program. IDocs serve as the vehicle for data transfer in SAP's Application Link Enabling (ALE) system. IDocs are used for asynchronous transactions: each IDoc generated exists as a self-contained text file that can then be transmitted to the requesting workstation without connecting to the central database. Another SAP mechanism, the Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) is used for synchronous transactions.

You can find more material on

http://thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_ALE_IDOCS.asp

and more detailed information here...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dc/6b7eee43d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/frameset.htm

Regards,

Richa

[Laxmana_Appana_]

Hi,

Use the transaction WEDI , you can see all IDOC related transactions.

Laxman