Technical Specifications

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

I am cvurrently on a project at the moment and am getting completely comfortable with all of the tools of SAP XI.

The problem I fear I will face in the future is the fact that here, they already have everything done through webmethods so their is no need to gather specs etc which I know will be needed on other projects.

I was wandering if someone could give me an example of how you would gather all of the the relevant information in order to start a brand new implementation. Things like where would you find what fields needed to mapped from IDOC to EDI and visa versa.

Is there a methodology to do this? and specific transactions to find this information.

Also could someone be kind enough to email me some examples of what a technical specification looks like. i.e. for the mapping, adapeters etc

Thank you in advance

alex.ong@hotmail.com

[Former Member]

Thank you for your quick response. So are you saying that it is not the job of the SAP XI Developer to define the Mapping?

If I wanted to define the mapping, scenarios etc where would I get that info from. Are there transactions that help with this. How would you get the specs?

Also I tried the link for the template documents and you require a user name and password. How do I obtain this?

Sorry to be such a pain I just want to prepare my self

Also could you maybe email and example of a technical specification that includes mapping, integration scenarios etc.

Pretty Please

[moorthy]

Hi,

<i>So are you saying that it is not the job of the SAP XI Developer to define the Mapping?</i>

>>Mapping rules are given by business requirement. i.e which field of file should match Idoc field etc. actual design/development is done by XI consultant. But any inputs are given to Functional/business people

<i>If I wanted to define the mapping, scenarios etc where would I get that info from. Are there transactions that help with this.</i>

>>No transactions-

You can go thru this demo so that you can find many realtime scenarios-

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/docs?rid=/webcontent/uuid/110ff05d-0501-0010-a19d-958247c9f798#xi [original link is broken]

In my previous reply, i mentioned some of the threads- It has all the formats required + content required to do the Tech Spec.. It will take time to read..

Regards,

Moorthy

[Former Member]

Hi Alex,

<i>>>So are you saying that it is not the job of the SAP XI Developer to define the Mapping?</i>

Normally, it's functional consultant who give you the rules to be mapped between source and target structure. But it's not always the case, it depends on how you work on your project.

<i>>>If I wanted to define the mapping, scenarios etc where would I get that info from. Are there transactions that help with this. How would you get the specs?</i>

Not at my knowledge. Each project has its specs. Often you have two docs:

- functional spec which describes the functional rules and the impacted systems, and sometimes the attempted structure: file, idoc, web service, database, etc...

- technical spec which describes what you (as a XI developer) has realized in order to do it: ALE configuration (admin), mapping, Data Type, BPM, etc...

<i>>>Also I tried the link for the template documents and you require a user name and password. How do I obtain this?</i>

For this template given by Khrishna, https://sdn. It's your SDN logon !

Regards.

Mickael

Message was edited by: Mickael Huchet