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Selecting business objects and services for ALE inbound processing
To specify the IDoc you want to process, you provide information in the external service wizard.
For the ALE interface, you can select IDocs in one of two ways:
- You can specify an IDoc or a set of IDocs by entering search criteria (such as the name of the IDoc) and having the external service wizard search the SAP system.
- You can enter an IDoc definition file name with the complete path to its location on the file system.
If you choose to discover IDocs from a file, first configure the file. The file is generated from information on the SAP server and is then saved to your local file system.
For the ALE pass-through IDoc interface, you can specify IDocs from a system or from a file, as described in the previous section. Additionally, you can select a generic IDoc.
When you select a generic IDoc, you create one business-object definition that can apply to any IDoc at run time. This selection is helpful if you are processing many IDocs and do not want to create a separate business-object definition for each one.
- Discovering IDocs from the system
Use the Discover IDocs from System option to have the external service wizard search for IDocs based on the criteria you specify.- Discovering IDocs from a file
To select IDocs from a file, first configure an IDoc definition file based on information on the SAP server.You then specify, in the external service wizard, the path to the file on your local system.
Configure a module for ALE inbound processing
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ALE business object application-specific information