Outbound Processing under Message Control: Procedure (SAP Library - IDoc Interface/Electronic Data Interchange (BC-SRV-EDI))

Outbound Processing under Message Control: Procedure

Message determination: Call the master data from the application and create the message as a message- or condition record, that is to say, you define the conditions under which the message is found and proposed, as well as the message properties. For example, you can enter the purchasing organization and the business partner as the conditions and the output medium (in this case 6 for EDI), dispatch time and language in which the message is to be sent as the output properties.

Message processing through IDoc dispatch: The messages are sent by the Message Control module as defined in the condition record, especially with regard to the selected dispatch time. You must also define a dispatch time ("output mode") in the partner profiles of the IDoc interface: standard combinations of the two times are shown in the table below. The Message Control parameters from the partner profiles must also match the corresponding fields in the output type. These parameters include:

- Application

- Partner

- Partner function

- Output type

Dispatch time combinations for the Message Control module and IDoc interface and the EDI equivalents

MC: Dispatch time	IDoc interface: Output mode	EDI equivalent
4 (= immediately)	Send IDoc immediately Start subsystem	Real time
1 (= send with next selection run)	Send IDoc immediately Start subsystem	Fast batch
1	Collect IDocs Start subsystem	Batch
1	Collect IDocs Do not start subsystem	Batch

Note

If you specify that the subsystem (= follow-on system) is not to be started in the partner profiles, the receiving system determines the dispatch time in accordance with the time plan set in the system, that is to say you do not have any control over when the IDoc arrives at the target system.