File Content Conversion on the Receiving side

Is there a way in which if I want a Pipe Delimited File as a result, after the last field also I get a pipe with next record starting in the next line.

Hi,
For | (Pipe), use corresponding hex code as fieldSeparator i.e. 0x7C as fieldSeparator.
For FCC on receiver side refer -
[Simple FCC|http://www.riyaz.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/19/xipi-file-content-conversion-for-simple-structure/], [Complex FCC|http://www.riyaz.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/20/xipi-file-content-conversion-for-complex-structures/]
For separotor at the end of line you can try using a dummy field or use combination of pipe and newline i.e. '0x7C' and '0x0D' (stands for carriage return) or 'nl' as endSeparator
Edit: You might consider using 'nl' as beginSeparator parameter and 0x7C as endSeparator. This will do the trick. However, this would add a blank line in the beginning of the file.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Riyaz
Edited by: Riyaz Sayyad on Aug 21, 2008 3:00 PM

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Hi Smita,
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either you can apply substring function in your mapping to that target node.
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Hi Sharat,
Your File format is like
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| - | - field2.. etc
| - FEBRIT64
| - | - field1..
| - | - field2.. etc
| - FEBRITEF
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| - | - field2.. etc
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| - | - | - field2.. etc
| - | - FEBRIT61
| - | - | - field1..
| - | - | - field2.. etc
| - | - FEBRIT64
| - | - | - field1..
| - | - | - field2.. etc
| - | - FEBRITEF
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| - | - | - field2.. etc
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Message Protocol File Content Conversion
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Check these blogs...Might help you.
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30
/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
/people/jeyakumar.muthu2/blog/2005/11/29/file-content-conversion-for-unequal-number-of-columns
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/01/06/how-to-process-csv-data-with-xi-file-adapter
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2004/12/15/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-fixed-lengths-to-xi-30-using-a-central-file-adapter
Link for SAP Help
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm

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Kind Regards,
Jegathees P.

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If we remove JobTrack node in target strucutre and remove the JobTrack parameters in CC, then if we send the same empty XML file FCC is working fine and we get the target text file 0 KB. (Amazing !!)
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Sedamkar,
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In the recevier side I have 3 nodes.
like HEADER,BODY,TRAILER.
file receiver communication channel I mentioned
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parmeters I mentioned
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Venkat,
Pls refrer the below:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d2/bab440c97f3716e10000000a155106/content.htm
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I'm doing a content conversion at target.
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I will rephrase the question i guess its communication gap...
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and even in receiver they are reading in the similar fashion
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6) problem is we donot have key fields for the Details node 1a and 1b even in FS or the existing payload and we got an update from the FS consultant that we will be receiving these fields but without keyfields...
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File Content Conversion-Error in receiver channel

hi gurus,
In moni its displaying success message but in adater monitoring, Reciver channel error displayed as
Parameter 'Record.fieldFixedLengths' or 'Record.fieldSeparator' is missing
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regards,
kiran.

Hi,
NameA.fieldSeparator
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Receiver File content conversion - NO Output

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I have an IDoc2File Scenario where i put the generated File to the filesystem of the XI-Server.
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best regards, Jens

hi,
you need to mention the names of the field by
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and also chk the similar thread
content conversion
plsz check the blog
/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
check this like below,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d2/bab440c97f3716e10000000a155106/content.htm
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kvr
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XML Document Conversion Type
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Specify a character string that contains a list of fixed field lengths that are separated by commas and which determines the number and the length of fields generated in the text file.
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● Line Feed (LF): \n
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Phani

When should message protocol be FILE CONTENT CONVERSION

HI one and all,
What doubt keeps haunting me is when should message protocol be selected FILE CONTENT CONVERSION.
for what format of sender information IS THIS USED ?
Ur answer is awaited.
Thanking you,
Ranjith.

Ranjith,
Consider the below cases u are sending XML file as
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Similarly ,consider the other way around u are sending the file input as
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Best regards,
raj.

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i have created a scenario with this blog
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem
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Thanks,
Giridhar.C

Hi Giridhar.
unable to see the messages on SXMB_MONI also
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