About value mapping

[Former Member]

What is value mapping ? when it is used ?

[Former Member]

TX

[Former Member]

An object can have different representations, depending on the context in which it is used.

For example, the person Mr. Smith has a particular customer number as a customer of mail order company A and has a particular employee number as an employee of company B. Both numbers refer to the same person.

You use the value mapping function to map different representations of an object to each other. You save the mapping rules for different objects in a value mapping table.

You use value mapping in the following areas of SAP Exchange Infrastructure:

· Java mapping

Message mapping

[Former Member]

HI,

We use value mapping whenever we want to have some values base on conditions.

Example: Suppose there is some data coming from file, lets say material no and you want to have the material description from R/3 then you can have value mapping to get it.

Check these blogs.

/people/community.user/blog/2007/01/08/valuemapping-using-the-graphical-mapping-tool

/people/sreekanth.babu2/blog/2005/02/23/value-mapping-replication

/people/sukumar.natarajan/blog/2006/10/23/accessing-value-mapping-defined-in-directory-using-java-functions

/people/sreekanth.babu2/blog/2005/01/05/design-time-value-mappings-in-xslt

Regards,

Sarvesh

[VijayKonam]

if A = 1 B = 2 and C = 3 and one of the systems knows only A B C but you want them to be sent as 1 2 3 from XI, you would go for value mapping.

VJ

[Former Member]

Hi,

Value mapping are of two types:

1) Fixed value mapping:

in this u assign the input and corresponding output values in fixed value mapping function in IR graphical mapping.

For example if u have inputs 1,2 ans 3 and u need the corresponding values of output as MrX,Mr.Y and Mr.Z so u use fixed value mapping function.

2) Value mapping:

Use

An object can have different representations, depending on the context in which it is used.

For example, the person Mr. Smith has a particular customer number as a customer of mail order company A and has a particular employee number as an employee of company B. Both numbers refer to the same person.

You use the value mapping function to map different representations of an object to each other. You save the mapping rules for different objects in a value mapping table.

Refer below link for more information:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/13/ba20dd7beb14438bc7b04b5b6ca300/frameset.htm

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00ee347e-aabb-2a10-b298-d15a1ebf...

/people/sukumar.natarajan/blog/2006/10/23/accessing-value-mapping-defined-in-directory-using-java-functions

Thnx

Chirag

[Former Member]

HI,

A perticular object/field could have different interprtations from applications to applications and Business to Business. For e.g Suppose a particular document XYZ has an identity code 001 in one application or may be in one orgnization. But the same document could have different ID in different applications.

With the help of Value Mapping you could map these IDs with each other, thus while transaction of the data XI will act as an smart mapper to pass the Application specific values.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/13/ba20dd7beb14438bc7b04b5b6ca300/frameset.htm

There are many docs available about Value mapping in SDN forum.

How to Perform Value Mapping – A Walkthrough

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00ee347e-aabb-2a10-b298-d15a1ebf...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2a/9d2891cc976549a9ad9f81e9b8db25/frameset.htm

SDN Discussions

/people/sukumar.natarajan/blog/2006/10/23/accessing-value-mapping-defined-in-directory-using-java-functions

thanks

Swarup