Syndicating Business Partner Records 

Use

You export the changes you made to the business partner data to the connected remote systems using the MDM Syndicator. In your case you export the changed records to an XML file that can be processed by a remote system.

The MDM Syndicator UI is similar to the MDM Data Manager window. You can select a set of records for syndication as follows:

●      Using the Search Parameters pane you can narrow down the set of records that is displayed in the Records pane.

●      You can select records directly in the Records pane.

●      You can use the Suppress Unchanged Records feature to let the MDM Syndicator automatically select the records.

In the tutorial you apply the third option, because you only want to syndicate the records you changed during the merge.

Procedure

Prepare and Execute the Syndication

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       1.      Start the MDM Syndicator and log onto the tutorial repository.

       2.      To open the prepared syndication map, choose File ® Open.

       3.      Select remote system MDC CRM and the map MDMBusinessPartner_1.

The syndication map is similar to the import map. It ensures that the resulting XML file has a format and data model that can be processed by the remote system. On the Item Mapping tab, you can review details of the mapping (for example Partner Number in the repository is mapped to PartnerNumber in the destination XML file).

       4.      Switch to the Map Properties tab and select the Suppress Unchanged Records property in the Value column.

The Suppress Unchanged Records property tracks whether or not a record has changed since the last time it was syndicated to a particular remote system and excludes the records that did not change from the syndication.

       5.      Start the syndication by choosing Execute Import ( exclamation mark).

Then define a destination for the result XML on your local drive. The syndication process may take a few minutes. When it is finished a message is output.

Check the Result

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       1.      Open the result XML file with any XML editor or browser.

       2.      Check the XML structure and content.

If you did not change any records other than those changed by the merge there should be 8 records in the XML file.

Result

You have finished the tutorial and gained a basic practical understanding of how the MDM core components and MDM content work. You can use the tutorial repository as a playground and test tool while diving deeper into the MDM capabilities.

You can for example try to perform a manual matching of the records contained in the repository. There are still duplicates because in the tutorial you only matched the new records, but not the existing records against each other.

The tutorial repository offers additional useful content, such as sample validations, assignments, and ports, to practice with. Go and explore MDM.