The ASCII Adapter 
The ASCII Adapter
Purpose
The ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) Adapter is the interface between the
CRM Middleware and external systems that cannot supply any BDoc types to the CRM Middleware.Instead, these external systems can supply the CRM Middleware with ASCII files, whose contents are configured in database tables by the
ASCII Adapter.Similarly, information from the CRM System can be supplied in text files to the external systems.
To configure the ASCII Adapter you can use the ASCII Adapter Configuration Tool. It contains all the important steps, settings, tests for connecting the database, RFC, processing the parameter file, etc.
Integration
When mapping this external data, three other components play an important role:
The external part of the ASCII Adapter, BDoc´ Generator and BDoc Structure Mapper are three separate programs that are also separately documented.
Features
The ASCII Adapter takes ASCII files (text files) from a predefined input directory, and places them into temporary tables in the
Consolidated Database CDB. These temporary tables must already be created by the user.Details on the ASCII files, their structure and field information can be created using transaction ASC2.
By calling up the ASCII Adapters, you can initiate a
Flow that calls up the BDoc´ Generator for External Data once the data is available in the CDB. The BDoc´ Generator takes the data, and converts it into BDoc´ types (provisional business document types) on the basis of predefined rules.The BDoc Structure Mapper can then convert the provisional business documents (BDocs) into
Synchronization BDoc Types by means of mapping rules. These BDoc types can then be passed on to the standard flow.