Configuring the Production

Adding EDIFACT Business Services

Add one EDIFACT business service for each document type that the production will receive. If this document type arrives via multiple communication modes (for example, via FTP in addition to TCP), you will need a business service for each communication mode.

To add an EDIFACT business service to a production, use the Business Service Wizard as usual; see Configuring Productions. Select one of the following classes from the Service Class list:

• EnsLib.EDI.EDIFACT.Service.FileServiceOpens in a new tab

• EnsLib.EDI.EDIFACT.Service.FTPServiceOpens in a new tab

• EnsLib.EDI.EDIFACT.Service.HTTPServiceOpens in a new tab

Adding EDIFACT Routing Processes

To add a routing process to a production, use the Business Process Wizard as usual; see Configuring Productions. Select EnsLib.MsgRouter.VDocRoutingEngineOpens in a new tab from the Process Class list.

Adding EDIFACT Business Operations

Add an EDIFACT business operation for each output destination.

You might also want to add business operations to handle bad messages (for background, see “Business Processes for Virtual Documents” in Using Virtual Documents in Productions).

To add an EDIFACT business operation to a production, use the Business Operation Wizard as usual; see Configuring Productions. Select one of the following classes from the Operation Class list:

• EnsLib.EDI.EDIFACT.Operation.FileOperationOpens in a new tab

• EnsLib.EDI.EDIFACT.Operation.FTPOperationOpens in a new tab

• EnsLib.EDI.EDIFACT.Operation.HTTPOperationOpens in a new tab

Connecting the EDIFACT Business Hosts

After you add the EDIFACT business hosts, connect these items as follows:

• For each EDIFACT business service, specify the Target Config Names setting as the name of the EDIFACT routing process.

• Create a routing rule set that contains the desired logic. See the next article.

  For the routing rule set, make sure that the Target field is the EDIFACT business operation.

• For the EDIFACT routing process, specify the Business Rule Name setting. Use the full name of the new routing rule set.

Configuring the Business Hosts

You should examine all the settings listed in “Reference for Settings” and set them as needed.

A couple of key settings for an EDIFACT business service are as follows:

• Doc Schema Category — Specifies the schema category to assign to the inbound documents. InterSystems IRIS® requires this information for validation and for search table indexing.

• Search Table Class — Specifies the class to use to index virtual properties in the inbound documents.

• For a File or FTP business service, also consider whether you need to configure the Reply Target Config Names field.

Also be sure to configure the Separators setting.