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When you configure actions in the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) Workbench, you can create links of different types depending on the data types of the source and destination properties in the Link Editor.

Features

The following table lists the link types.

Link Type

Description

Assign Value

Links non-XML data type properties. Sets the destination property value to the source expression result.

Assign XML

Replaces the destination document with the source document, or with a segment of the source document.

For example, if you loaded a reference document with values for a transaction, you may want to replace the entire request document in the action with the reference document.

Append XML

Takes the source element and its children and inserts it as a child to the destination element.

Append After XML

Appends the source node after several children nodes.

You must select the child node directly after the source node location. The system appends the source node to the destination parent node in the selected order.

Replace XML

Replaces the destination element children with the source node and children.

Remove XML

Removes a node and its children from the document at execution time.

The system may interpret an empty element as a valid value, but it may not be the value you want to send. For example, when you send a request for data to the SAP Business Connector, you send filter criteria such as a plant ID. If you send a blank plant ID, it may be interpreted as a valid value (an empty string) and return no results because the plant ID " " does not exist. Therefore, you may want to remove the filter element before you send the document.

If you are working with an XML property with a non-XML source property, the only available link types are Assign Value and Remove XML.

If you are working with an XML property with an XML source property, all link types are available. Assign XML is the default link type for this scenario.

If you are working with an XML property with a source property that is a node of an XML property, all link types are available for selection. Assign XML is the default link type for this scenario.

An example of each link type is explained in Link Type Examples.