Messages used for communication between the R/3 System and the archive system.
Message types can be subdivided as follows:
1. Format used for electronic data transfer for a specific business process.
In the EDIFACT standard for EDI, examples of message types are ORDERS (for purchase orders) and INVOIC (for invoices).
2. Within the IDoc interface the "logical" message type is only used for control purposes. It points to one or more IDoc types, which are the data formats here. The names of logical message types are partially adapted from the names of the relevant EDIFACT message types.
Specific interpretation scheme for electronically transmitted data.
A message type is an interpretation structure which is used for one specific business transaction.
The standard EDIFACT allows, for example, the message types
Type of dialog message in the R/3 System.
There are five different message types:
The message type affects output and subsequent flow.