Field Content Conversion

[Former Member]

When do we usually go for field content conversion ?

Our implementation uses field content conversion but I have no idea why it was at all used. Can anyone throw some light on this ?

Thanks,

Nivedita

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>>Field Content Conversion

i don't think its field content conversion,it is File content conversion.

File content conversion is used on sender side when we need to pick up a flat file and/or is used on the receiver side when we have to deliver a flat file to the receiver.

If its something else then do let us know what exactly you mean by Field Content conversion

Thanx

Aamir

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HI,

FCC is used when your file data coming in either fixted length or it is separated by comma,# or any other charaters.

So in order to convert that format of data into XML understandale format we go for file content conversion.

Check out the weblog which shows how to do file content conversion at the sender as well as receiver side.

Ref:

Sender -

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30

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

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter -

TAB delimited

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

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem

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

Receiver-

/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion

Thnx

Chirag

[Former Member]

I was talking about File content conversion . Sorry for the typo.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi

These blogs may be helpful for u to understand the file content conversion more properly

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2

/people/sukumar.natarajan/blog/2007/06/12/content-conversion-in-sender-file-adapter--2-new-useful-parameters

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[Former Member]

hi nivedita,

i think it should be File Content Conversion instead of Field Content Conversion.

Anyways In File Content Conversions, you can convert a table in XML format to pure text format in this mode and vice versa. The expected XML structure contains the structure as nodes filled with any number of elements without additional sub node.

you can also Convert Fixed Length File and Comma Separated Value text file containing complex structures into an XML source format in this mode. The file contains various row formats in logical structures.into Xml form using FCC.

FCC is used in both sender and receiver communication channel.

For more information refer this link:

Converting File Content in a Sender Adapter

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/33/c6e63b60c25767e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Converting File Content in the Receiver Adapter

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/33/c6e63b60c25767e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Regards,

Mandeep Virk

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