File Content Conversion

[Former Member]

Hi,

can any one explain me neatly with the content conversion parametres neatly. and where they were used for what with real time examples.

Dont send me the blogs,

Please any one help me

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Edited by: Mike Pokraka on Jul 24, 2008 1:15 PM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI

Refer the below links for complete understanding of the FCC

File Content prameters for the Receiver Adapter

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

File Content prameters for the Sender Adapter

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

Refer

File Receiver with Content Conversion

Configuring the Receiver File/FTP Adapter

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/95/bb623c6369f454e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

File content conversion sites

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

Please see the below links for file content conversion..

- FCC

- FCC

File Content Conversion for Unequal Number of Columns

- FCC

Content Conversion (Pattern/Random content in input file)

- FCC

- FCC - MDM

XI in the role of a FTP

- FCC

File to R/3 via ABAP Proxy

- FCC

- EOIO - File

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ee/c9f0b4925af54cb17c454788d8e466/frameset.htm - cc

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/95/bb623c6369f454e10000000a114084/content.htm - fcc cOUNTER

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/da1e7c16-0c01-0010-278a-eaed5eae... - conversion agent

File Content prameters for the Receiver Adapter

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

File Content prameters for the Sender Adapter

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

Refer

File Receiver with Content Conversion

Configuring the Receiver File/FTP Adapter

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/95/bb623c6369f454e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

File content conversion sites

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

Please see the below links for file content conversion..

- FCC

- FCC

File Content Conversion for Unequal Number of Columns

- FCC

Content Conversion (Pattern/Random content in input file)

- FCC

- FCC - MDM

XI in the role of a FTP

- FCC

cheers

[Former Member]

Assume u hv to send the following file through xI.

xxx,1,a

yyy,2,b

zzz,3,c

XI can understand only XML.Therefore the file has to be converted to XML format. This is done through content conversion.As the input is a txt file. we do a sender FCC for this.

Assume the source and target structure to be.

MT_EMPLOYEE

EMPLOYEE_DETAILS

->NAME

->EMP_NO

->COMPANY

In ID

do the following steps

In the sender communication channel choose

Adapter type - File

Message Protocol - FCC

File Access Parameters

Specify source directory and file name(with extension .txt or .csv)

Content Conversion Parameters

DocumentName - MT_EMPLOYEE

DocumentNamespace - FileContentConversion

RecordsetStructure - EMPLOYEE_DETAILS,*

RecordesetSequence - Ascending

EMPLOYEE_DETAILS.fieldSeparator - ,

EMPLOYEE_DETAILS.fieldNames - NAME,EMP_NO,COMPANY

EMPLOYEE_DETAILS.endSeparator - 'nl'

Refer this link

Sender-FCC

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

Receiver-FCC

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

Edited by: malini balasubramaniam on Jul 24, 2008 9:38 AM

[Former Member]

Hi Amuruth,

Read this link...

Converting File Content in a Sender Adapter:

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

Converting File Content in the Receiver Adapter:

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

regards

S.K.Karthikeyan.

[Former Member]

Hi,

File content conversion is used for converting flat files into XML messages for further processing by an integration engine. The internal XI processing is based on XML messages hence you need messages to be converted to XML.

SAP By default understands xml data structure. If your file is coming in an xml format you can process it as it is.

In case of file that is coming with a delimiter then you need to have File content conversion for SAP adpater to convert file into an XML structure which will then go to next step of Message Mapping.

Regards,

Sharanya.

[Former Member]

Converting File Content in the Receiver Adapter

If you have selected File Content Conversion under Message Protocol, you can convert a table in XML format to pure text format in this mode. The expected XML structure contains the structure as nodes filled with any number of elements without additional subnodes.

The expected document structure usually looks like this:

represents the maximum number of columns in this case. This parameter also functions together with the specification of a line break for xml.endSeparator.

This value requires NameA.addHeaderLine=0 to be specified.

[MichalKrawczyk]

hi,

>>>>can any one explain me neatly with the content conversion parametres neatly.

there are all described nealty in documentation - you just need to "read" it with understanding

>>>> and where they were used for what with real time examples.Dont send me the blogs,

if you don't want the blogs (which are based on real examples) what do you want then?

blogs described ?

everything is in the blogs and documentation - just read it

good luck

Regards,

michal

[Former Member]

Hi Amruth,

File Content conversion is used in case of

1) If the Sender is sending the .txt or .csv etc files means we use Content conversion at Sender file adapter inorder to convert that formt into xml. why because XI can understand only xml format.

2) in the other case if it is Idoc--File means, and the File requires .txt or .csv format file to be generate at their end means, we use Content conversion at Receiver File adapter end.

Please have a look at the Mostly used Content conversion parameters

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

Regards

Seshagiri

[santhosh_kumarv]

Hi,

XI can only understand message in XML format so any thing other than the XML format should be converted to XML. In case of the file adapter we use the FCC to convert the inbound file to XML. However the FCC has a limitation to text/csv files that too not with a deep nested structure.

Thanks

SaNv...