BPM in an IDoc--EDI scenario

Question

This is the BPM i have encountered with.
The parameters for the steps are :
1. Start: One Queue
1. Loop: Condition: CO_endloop value: not = true
2. Parallel: End condition; necessary branches : value: 1
3. Fork Start.
4. Receive: message: Collect message; use correlation: Correlation
5. Append : target: Collectmessagelist; operation: Append
6. loop parameter1: target:Co_endloop;expression:False
7. Wait:duration: 2mins;
8. loop parameter2: target:co_endloop;expression:True
9. Applymapping: source and target messages defined.
10. Send New message: mode:asynchcronous.
11. Stop: One queue.
The graphical definition looks like this:
.................................-> wait(15 minutes) > loop2>
Start--> loop --> Parallel(Fork).....................Parallel Fork END --> loop END --> append >send>Stop
.................................--> receive -->append --> loop1 --->
Kindly show me how this works.
Is it a good flow;Please inform if u can come up with a more reduced BPM for the said requirement.
If we have a similar kind of bpm for another interface,with another branch to add in the parallel node specifying the number or cardinality function(specifying number of idocs to be collected along with the wait condition). how can we do it ?
Please explain.
If there are any reference materials in any blogs for the same then please post in reply.

Answer 1

Hi Abhisek,
I just understand from your question that you are using BPM for collecting number of input msgs ( may be Idocs)  for a particular time period. Please confirm.
I cant tell u the exact flow of the BPM since you have just mentioned the steps which are not very clear.
Can u just be clear what are the steps inside Parallel(Fork) block. i.e, how many branches u have and what does each branch have??
One more simpler way for collecting IDocs for a particular time is:
You can just create an infinite loop for collecting IDOCs and use a control step as a deadline handler..the deadline handler can be used to raise or throw an exception and end the infinite loop.
Since I cant add a screenshot here, I can forward a screenshot of a sample BPM to ur mail ID.
If u can explain more clearly about your BPM steps, I can try to explain you the flow.
Hope it will be helpful