Question on File Content Conversion

[Former Member]

Hi all,

I went through this blog(/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1) for File content conversion and I have a question regading File Content Conversion. Is it always neccessary to have the data type structure as File, Record, Row and then the fields. Is it always neccesary to maintain this level of hierarchy for File content conversion to work.

[Former Member]

Hi Sonia,

For FCC sender or receiver if you want text with delimieter / csv file process.

use the below parameters

You would have to use the Document name ,namespace,record set name ,record strucutre name ( and occurrences also) and processing parameters in Sender side

In receiver side Record structre, processing parameters.

see below links to have more details..

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2004/12/15/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-fixed-lengths-to-xi-30-using-a-central-file-adapter

/people/jeyakumar.muthu2/blog/2005/11/29/file-content-conversion-for-unequal-number-of-columns

/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file

/people/harrison.holland5/blog/2006/12/20/xi-configuration-for-mdm-integration--sample-scenario /people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/04/03/xi-in-the-role-of-a-ftp

/people/prateek.shah/blog/2005/06/14/file-to-r3-via-abap-proxy

/people/mickael.huchet/blog/2006/09/18/xipi-how-to-exclude-files-in-a-sender-file-adapter -

Regards

Chilla

[vuyyurujyothi]

Hi Sonia,

Also, you can do FCC only upto two levels. More than two levels you can not do.

If you need to do more than two levels, you have to write module processors.

Thanks,

Jyoths.

[Former Member]

Sonia

It depends upon the context hierarchy of the payload which you like to send to receiver system.

You can also check this thread --

[Former Member]

What is the difference between Content Conversion on the Sender Side versus doing the content conversion on the Receiver side. Pros and Cons

[Former Member]

Hey

u do FCC on sender side when u have to pick up a CSV(Flat file) and u di FCC on receiver side when we gotta deliver CSV(Flat file )

thanx

ahmad

[Former Member]

So in other words we have do File Content Conversion on the sender side when we are doing csv - XI - xml and we can do FCC on the receiver side when are doing xml - XI- csv. Is that right?

[Former Member]

Yeah,100% right

thanx

ahmad

[Former Member]

Hey

no u dont need to have the same structure ,but as a word of caution,XI can't do content conversion for complex structures so make sure that u create ur data type correctly if u have to use FCC

thanx

ahmad

[Former Member]

No. It is not necessary to have in the same structure. Depending upon your requirements and how your data is coming into XI you will define your datatype. In this you can ignore Record. You can have directly Row under File.

---Satish