BPM Block step

Hi everyone,
In my scenario IDOC XI JDBC scenario I am using the BPM.
My IDOC message type is Vendor master and needs to send to 4 Legacy systems.
My BPM steps are:
1)Receive step
2)Transformation step.
3)Fork step(4 branches).
Inside the fork
a)4 receiver determination steps.
b)4 Send steps.
My question is I need to monitor each and every step in BPM.
So how many BLOCK steps can I have for my scenario?
And in the BLOCK step properties can anyone explain me  what is Multiline element,Current Line element and End Condition?
I have gone through the SAP BASIS BPM patterns in XI but it is very confusing for me.
If any one can help me out that would be great and I appreciate your help.
Thank you,
Mili

Hi Mili,
imagine you have to a message that has a unknown number of order items. But your receiver wants to have messages separated by order items.
Sample:
You send a order IDOC from R/3 to your XI. The XI does not know how many order items are in the IDOC. So you do a transformation step. In this case a so called multi-mappping. the multi mapping splits your IDOC into several Messages.
Imagine also that you BPM is generated coding! Now imagine a table (like in EXCEL) where these single messages (your order items) are. The multiline element is your excel.
Now you want to send the EXCEL rows (=order items) step by step.
So your send step has to take the actual message that should be processed.
This is the SINGLE LINE.
Take care: MULTILINE Container element and SINGLE Line Container element have to refer to the same message interface!
But in your case you do not need a multi mapping as the number of receivers is known (=4).
Also you do not need a end condition.
You need only one send step!!!
In Integration directory configure a receiver determination where your 4 receivers are!
Also 4 interface determinations and 4 communication channels.
One question:
What do you mean by:
>>>My question is I need to monitor each and every step in BPM.
Thats all!
Regards mario

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