SRM7 - eSOA service documentation

[matteo_montalto]

Hi all gurus,

we're using SRM7 on our testing system and we enabled distribution of contracts to the backend test system using the new eSOA technology. I'm completely new to this kind of procedure; we've seen that the contract distributed are definitely wrong on the backend (e.g. service hierarchies are flattened, service lines have been "locked", and so on) and looking on the SRM system in sxi_monitor tx I can easily check that the XML itself is not correct.

Here are the questions:

- where can I get detailed documentation about this new service, from beginning to the end (SRM creation of XML -> XML sending -> backend receiving -> BAPI ? (I suppose) to create the document) of the process?

- specifically, what's the part of code (FM, methods) in which is defined how to convert the SRM document into an XML file? This should be the point in out task, since it seems that contracts are badly converted into the XML message...

Thanks everyone for the hints and suggestions you might give

EDIT: the problem seems to be related to contracts with service hierarchy... is there feature not supported by standard actually by now? Is there any workaround available? Thanks again

Edited by: Matteo Montalto on Dec 10, 2009 3:09 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Service hierarchy is supported in SRM 7.0 with the following prerequisites:

1) Your ERP system has to be on ECC 6 Enhancement Pack 4.

2) You must define settings in Customizing for SAP Supplier Relationship Management under SRM Server -> Cross Application Basic Settings -> Service Procurement -> Activate Service Procurement

Check the "Hierarchies" chapter in release note for SRM 7.0 for more details.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Matteo,

Did u get any documents for ur problem (Creation of XML messages in SRM). I would be greatful if u could share those with me.

Even I am looking for the same as we wish to configure service procurement using ESOA.

Pl let me know if u have the documents for ESOA.

Cheers,

Nikhil

[peter_novoth]

Hi Matteo,

you can get some hints from the PDF attachment of the note 1270081.

Regards,

Peter

[Former Member]

Hi Peter,

PDF attachment of the note 1270081 only gives the ways to trouble shoot SOA services.

Could you suggest some documentation on configuring SOA for SRM - ECC integration., so that we are able to generate the XML message on the source side.

Thanks,

Nikhil.

[peter_novoth]

Hi Nikhil,

sorry, but unfortunately I don't have that kind of documentation yet.

Regards,

Peter