With the status monitor you can monitor the processing status of IDocs in ALE inbound and outbound processing and you can process IDocs manually.

Choose Tools ® ALE ® Administration ® Monitoring ® Status Monitor for ALE Messages.

Use the selection options to restrict and display the IDoc selection.

The IDocs are arranged by status in the hierarchy. You can rearrange them by message type/object type or by partner system. You can display a selection of IDocs, process IDocs directly or first restrict their number and then process them.

From the hierarchy display you can select an IDoc in the list and from here branch to the IDoc individual display.

In the selection screen you can use the following options for selecting IDocs:

• IDoc number
• Date created *
• Time created
• Date changed *
• Time changed
• IDoc status
• Partner system
• Message type
• Business object type and object key (selection takes longer than with message type)

You can call up context-specific menus that you can call up by clicking on the right mouse button.

IDocs in inbound and outbound processing are displayed in a hierarchy grouped by their status.

To display a legend of the symbols used in the hierarchy choose Goto ® Display legend.

You can also restrict the number of IDocs to display from the hierarchy screen by choosing Select IDocs.

From the menu Settings and partly by using the symbols you can change the hierarchy as follows:

• Message type/object type highlighted
• IDoc status highlighted
• Display partner systems (highlighted message type or IDoc status)

You can put status information into groups and hide/show status numbers (in Settings menu).

Choose Display IDocs to display a list of the associated IDocs for each main entry or sub-entry that contains the following information:

• IDoc number
• Status
• Message type
• Object type (only for business objects)
• Object type (only for business objects)
• Status text
• Partner number of receiving system
• Date created
• Time created
• IDoc basis type
• Number of segments

You can display the IDocs belonging to the IDoc numbers individually. Select an IDoc and choose Display IDocs or double click on the IDoc. The IDoc display contains the control record, data records and status records.

To display links select an IDoc number and choose Display links.

A list of objects linked directly to the IDoc appears.

In the IDoc selection you can display the associated status long text of an IDoc number by selecting the button of the same name.

For each IDoc number in the IDoc selection you can also display the columns Object type and Object key by choosing the button Object key.

• Synchronous status determination

You can print the hierarchy of the status monitor (IDoc selection ® Print).

If incomplete IDocs or IDocs with errors exist, you can determine the cause and correct the problem using the status long text (click right mouse button or choose IDoc selection).

You can then process the IDocs, or first restrict the number of IDocs and then process them.

A list of processed IDocs with their previous and current status appears.