What is the difference between Idoc and Idoc Type?

[Former Member]

Hi Friends ,

Thanks for Answering my Previous question.

Now ,

What is the difference between IDOc and IDOC-Type?

dheeraj

[Former Member]

IDOC type is a part of IDOC.....

For e.g. there is Inbound IDOC and Outbound IDOC...

There are IDOCs but each has differnt types attached to it.

Outbound idoc has WP_PLU, WPDBBY type of IDOC.

Wp_plu contains data of the material master, similarly WPDBBY contains data for Bonus Buy....

U can attach diiferent type of IDOC in WE20 .

[Former Member]

PROVIDE ME DETAIL

I M NOT SATISFY WITH YOUR POSTING.....BRIEF ME DIFFRENCE BETWEEN IDOC & IDOC TYPE

[Former Member]

IDOC:

SAP standard format for electronic data interchange between systems.

IDocs can be used in the following business scenarios:

ALE: communication between logical systems. Logical systems can be R/3, R/2 or non-SAP system. ALE distribution models are based on message types that indicate the appropriate IDoc types.

EDI: communication between an R/3 or R/2 system and a non-SAP system.

IDOC Types:

The IDoc type indicates the SAP format that is to be used to transfer the data for a business transaction. An IDoc is a real business process in the form of an IDoc type. An IDoc type can transfer several message types: These are the "logical messages" that correspond to different business processes.

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