Conversions

[Former Member]

HI,

Can u plz elaborate what conversion mean ..and what type of situation

we r going use it?

thanks and regards

guna

[Former Member]

Conversions are to upload legacy data into sap. when there is chunks of data that is to be uploaded to sap we use bdc or lasmw top upload tht data into sap.

Manohar

[Former Member]

HI

Adapters are not only the option for converting the data to a PI understandable format.There is an alternative for the adapter which are available at less cost and these are called as Conversion Agents. These dynamically converts unstructured messages from microsoft word , Excel, Powerpoint, Plain text,PDF etc and semi-structured formats such as HL7,SWIFT,HIPA,ANSIX12 and cobol to PI understandable SOAP-XML format.So that u can easily integrate the information you need in you back-end systems. You can also reverse the process and use the conversion agent to transfom XML into these unstructured or semi-structured formats so that you can quickly and easily share information with ur business partners.

SAP Conversion Agent is a data transformation system. Using Conversion Agent,

you can build a high-throughput interface between any data format and XMLbased

systems.

To configure a Conversion Agent data transformation, you use a procedure that is

called parsing by example. In this procedure, you teach Conversion Agent how to

convert data to XML, simply by marking up an example in a visual editor

environment. You do not need to do any programming to configure the

conversion. You can configure even a complex transformation in just a few hours

or days, saving weeks or months of programming time.

Conversion Agent can process fully structured, semi-structured, or unstructured

data. You can configure Conversion Agent to work with text, binary data,

messaging formats, HTML pages, PDF documents, word-processor documents,

and any other format that you can imagine.

Conversion Agent can parse the data and transform it to any standard or custom

XML vocabulary. In the reverse direction, Conversion Agent can serialize XML

data, transforming the content to other formats. The Conversion Agent

components that perform these transformations are called parsers and serializers,

respectively. Another component, called a mapper, combines these two functions,

and does XML to XML transformations

/people/william.li/blog/2006/03/17/how-to-get-started-using-conversion-agent-from-itemfield

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/18/conversion-agent-a-free-lunch

/people/alexander.bundschuh/blog/2006/03/14/integrate-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield-with-sap-xi

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/17/more-on-the-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield

See below links

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/4c38c4cf105f85e10000000a1553f6/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/4c38c4cf105f85e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/4c4e34d4765f34e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

Blog for conversion agent

/people/bla.suranyi/blog/2006/06/08/sap-xi-supports-edifact

cheers

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[Former Member]

Hi,

Please tell what convertion you like to know.

In ABAP we have convertion that is BDC,LSMW...like this.

If it is so please post your Q in abap forum.

if u like to know about convertion agent please update the thread to send some doc and links.

Regards,

Phani

[Former Member]

Hi,

Conversion Agent is a third party adapter but cannot be replaced by File Content Conversion of File adapter.

It can replace Content Conversion of the File Adapter , if needed.

Conversion Agent is a tool that allows you to build XML from PDF's,. TXT and excel files, mappings for EDI etc. So, if your file is a .TXT file, then you can develop the mapping using Conversion aganet to convert the .txt file and then call the corresponding COnversion Agent Module from your file adapter.

If you can handle Content Conversion using FIle adapter, you should use the same, but, if needed you can always use the Itemfild Conversion Agent to do the same. The only catch here with Conversion Agent is that it has its licensing overheads and it runs on a separate engine and so perfrormance when compared to file content conversion can be a bit poor but not lots.

Conversion agent releated links

/people/william.li/blog/2006/03/17/how-to-get-started-using-conversion-agent-from-itemfield

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/18/conversion-agent-a-free-lunch

/people/alexander.bundschuh/blog/2006/03/14/integrate-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield-with-sap-xi

/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/17/more-on-the-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield

See below links

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/4c38c4cf105f85e10000000a1553f6/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/4c38c4cf105f85e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/4c4e34d4765f34e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

Blog for conversion agent

/people/bla.suranyi/blog/2006/06/08/sap-xi-supports-edifact

Thanks

Vikranth