File Content Conversion

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am Very much confused when working with File Content Conversion.

How many structures does this File content Conversion can have at the sender side.

AND WHAT ARE THE SETTINGS TO BE DONE NECESSERILY WHEN DOING.

Please help me out in this regard.

[nikhil_bose]

in FCC, you can have any number of structures as you need in your scenario. These structure determines the conversion from a flat file(CSV or fixed length) to native XML or vice versa.

Read the adapter documentation: it is easy to configure

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm

mark if answered already

thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

Here are some links on FCC.

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

/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

/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

/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

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

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d2/bab440c97f3716e10000000a155106/content.htm

Regards,

phani

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[Former Member]

Hi AmrutRaj,

When we go with a file adapter, we do content conversion only when that file is a non xml. Because XI can understand xml structure. So we have to convert the input file to xml by using content conversion parameters.

There are different file types. flat file, csv, tab separated files etc. What ever may be the file type, we do content conversion depending upon the requirement.

If out file is a flat file we give field fixed lengths.

For csv file or tab separated file, we give field separator

The file structure is a customer specific.

for other details of file structures follow the below link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

[Former Member]

HI,

Refer the below help for sender and receiver FCC strucutre.

Sender:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

Receiver:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

NOw how to do FCC check out the weblog which describes the same.

Search on SDN give u most of the information:

FCC

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

NAB the TAB (File Adapter)

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

Receiver FCC no need of Endseparator

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2007/08/03/file-adapter-receiver--are-we-really-sure-about-the-concepts

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

Do let me know if u need more info.

Thnx

Chirag

[Former Member]

it can have many structures but try to make it a flat structure (without nesting the structures as thi makes it complex)