Regarding mandatory fields, Context Objects and Fault Message Types

Question

Hi All,
1) I am creating a structure with fields "Name", "Street" and "City". While creation i want to make "Name" fields as mandatory. Is it possible. If so how to achieve this.
2) What is the purpose of Context Object and in which situation we will use this.
3) What is the purpose of Fault Message Types and in which situation we will use this.
4) I am doing file to file scenario, at sender side i have set the adapter as file and transport protocol as "FTP" . It is asking for "Server", "PORT" and "Login Details". What is this FTP, for this do i need to take any login details. I am totally not aware of FTP, could please explain more about this.
Kindly look into the above points and respond point by point.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Prem.S

Answer 1

Hi prem,
<b>1) I am creating a structure with fields "Name", "Street" and "City". While creation i want to make "Name" fields as mandatory. Is it possible. If so how to achieve this.</b>
give occurence 1..unbounded. for the field name.
<b>2) What is the purpose of Context Object and in which situation we will use this.</b>
If u have multiple receiver system then to determine the reciever u can use context object.....
the alternative of context objetc is X-Path...
Check out these
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/d6/e44fcf98baa24a9686a7643a33f26f/content.htm
/people/prasadbabu.nemalikanti3/blog/2006/09/20/receiver-determination-based-on-the-payload-of-input-dataextended-xpathcontext-object
Here is a scenario where context objects were used for BPM
Technical Context Object in ccBPM
Get the details here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d6/e44fcf98baa24a9686a7643a33f26f/frameset.htm
Technical Context Objects :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d6/e44fcf98baa24a9686a7643a33f26f/frameset.htm
A list of the Technical Context Objects names can be found here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6e/ff0bf75772457b863ef5d99bc92404/content.htm
Difference between context object and x-path:
diff between context object and x path
<b>3) What is the purpose of Fault Message Types and in which situation we will use this</b>
whenever u want to catch some exception u can use fault message types.Just for a example u r sending some data to SAP system.But due to some reason the R/3 system is down.so in this case if u have implemented fault message ..u can get a error message specifying r/3 is down....
Fault message implementation.
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/11/02/fault-message-types--a-demo-part-1
How to Guide
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/40574601-ec97-2910-3cba-a0fdc10f4dce
<b>4) I am doing file to file scenario, at sender side i have set the adapter as file and transport protocol as "FTP" . It is asking for "Server", "PORT" and "Login Details". What is this FTP, for this do i need to take any login details. I am totally not aware of FTP, could please explain more about this.</b>
there are two transport protocol for File adapter
1)FTP(File transfer protocol)
to know abt FTP check here
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/0e16bfd7b021aee10000000a1553f6/content.htm
2)NFS(Network File System)
in server :Enter the host name or IP address of the FTP server.
in PORT:Specify the port number of the FTP server.
             The default is the standard port for the FTP server (21)
check here
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/content.htm
Regards
BILL
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