Configuring Internal Company Processes 

Use

This section describes the typical steps that you must perform to configure internal company processes (or application-to-application processes) in the Integration Directory. When working in the Integration Directory you use the Integration Builder.

Note that the details of the configuration depend on the underlying process. The information in this section merely gives an overview of the most important configuration steps.

For examples of detailed configuration instructions, see the configuration guide for the SAP XI demo examples.

Prerequisites

To make the configuration settings, the following prerequisites must generally be fulfilled:

·        The system landscape is described in the System Landscape Directory.

·        The design objects relevant for the process are defined in the Integration Repository (see Design).

Ideally, you have created an integration scenario in the Integration Repository for the process to be configured.

In this case, we recommend using the integration scenario configurator for the configuration. The integration scenario configurator guides you step-by-step through the configuration.

Process Flow

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       1.      Specify the collaboration profile.

In the collaboration profile, define the potential senders and receivers of messages and their technical communication options.

¡        To address the potential senders and receivers of messages, define services.

In internal company processes, you are the integration expert making the configuration settings and you know the whole system landscape. In this case, you can address the known business systems from the System Landscape Directory as the senders and receivers of messages. To do this, define business system services for all relevant business systems. If integration processes are involved in the process, define integration process services.

In internal company processes, you typically use services without a party. The definition of communication parties only becomes relevant when configuring cross-company processes.

¡        Define communication channels for the involved sender and receiver services. In the communication channel, specify the configuration of the involved sender and receiver adapters.

       2.      Define logical routing.

¡        To specify the receivers of messages, define receiver determinations.

¡        To define the inbound interface at the receiver (and interface mappings, if necessary), define interface determinations.

       3.      Define collaboration agreements.

In a collaboration agreement, you define which of the communication channels defined in step 1 are to be used for a particular communication.

Note that you must define receiver agreements in any case (for each technical receiver of a message). You only have to define sender agreements when using special sender adapters that are configured explicitly at the inbound channel of the Integration Server (for example, sender file/FTP adapters).