Why Message Type in XI

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

I am new to Xi . anybody pls help me

I want to know the Purpose of Message type in XI..cann't we directly use the data type in message Interface ? w/o message type what will happen ?

Thanks & Regards,

Laxmi.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In XI, we always create Data Type first and using Data type we create message type.

We can reuse this data type to create integrate into another data type also.

Using data type we cannot create any other object in XI except message type.

Whenever we need to create message interface, message mapping, interface mapping, we always use message type.

So Message type is need to be created from Data type. To transfer data XI uses message type.

Regards,

Manisha

[Former Member]

Thanks you for your replies..frnds.

[former_member192295]

Hi,

In XI/PI data type itself is not sufficient format to use some where. Message type window is a basic XML format structure of data type, but message type don't have any direction. Depending on message interface direction message will be move.

[Former Member]

Hi,

this is a general question and was already asked a lot of times.

Please search in SDN first.

Regards

Patrick

[Former Member]

Hi Laxmi,

Please go through this link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2d/c0633c3a892251e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

I think it will help you to understand your query.

regards

Ashwin