Procedure

Both linking to an application object and filtering in receiver determination assume that the relevant ALE objects exist.

If, as in the above example, you want to link the outbound IDoc with the material number, the material number has to be read from the IDoc data part. However the ALE layer takes the IDoc data as unformatted character strings. ALE therefore needs to know from which message type, segment and fields the ALE object material number can be read. The same applies to the ALE object "material type", which is used to determine the receiver.

To define ALE objects, choose  ALE Development IDocs Data Filtering Define Filter Object Type (BD95).