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Prerequisites

The user account you use should be assigned to one of the Process Integration monitoring roles. For more information about which roles allow you to view and modify messages, see Monitoring Roles .

Context

To convert IDoc XML payload to IDoc format, the IDoc adapter requires the metadata for the respective IDoc type. If this data is not available, you must load it from the sender or receiver system (or from the corresponding SAP reference system, if this system is a subsystem). You can load, display, and delete metadata using the IDoc monitor.

Procedure

  1. Access the IDoc monitor in one of the following ways:

    • Open a browser and go to http://[host]:[port]/pimon to access the Process Integration tools. Then choose Start of the navigation path Monitoring Next navigation step Adapter Engine Next navigation step IDoc Monitor End of the navigation path.

    • Open a browser and go to http://[host]:[port]/nwa to access SAP NetWeaver Administrator. Then choose Start of the navigation path SOA Next navigation step Monitoring Next navigation step PI IDoc Adapter Monitoring End of the navigation path.

  2. Choose the Message Metadata tab.
  3. To load IDoc metadata, choose the Preload button.

    Enter the details necessary to connect to the system that holds the metadata, and also specify which IDoc type should be loaded from this system. All fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory.

    Note

    Consider that the system keeps the loaded metadata until a user deletes it manually, or AS Java is restarted.

Results

The system loads the specified IDoc type and displays the result in a table. This table contains information about all the IDoc types available in the cache. You can choose which information should be displayed by filtering the results, refreshing the table, or setting the number of rows to be displayed.

In case you want to delete one or more IDoc types from the cache, you can select them and choose the Delete button. To select multiple entries in the table, hold the Ctrl button while selecting the entries.