Correlation - Expiration of Receiving Step

Dear all,
In our scenario, the ccBPM integration process needs to send an asynchronous messge to an external service provider and wait for some time to get the response. If e.g. 2 days passed without response received, the integration process has to report an error.
How can I specify the expiration time for the correlation message receiving?
Thanks, Jerome

Hi Jerome,
Just want to add one more thing..
Dont forget to do run transaction code SWF_XI_CUSTOMIZING.ie Automatic BPE Customizing.
Click on Maintain Runtime Environment .
Schedule background job for deadline monitoring.
There are back ground jobs which runs and checks if any process has passed deadline. So over there you can set the time in which the back ground job should run. i.e if you want the process to wait for a minute and then throw an alert/error then you should make sure that the back ground job is scheduled in a timeframe of 1 minute.
Regards,
Sumit

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Hi, all:
We have defined a BMP process, like below:
Receive (Start Process) --> Sync Send --> Sync Send --- Async Send
Now we need to have additional steps added into the process: Async Receive.
Now we have problem defining the correlation:
   Since this Async step is not the start of the process, we have to use correlation, if we leave it blank, a red question mark stays, and we can not active BPM.
   When we define the correlation, we just expect one message type to be received from a Async system.
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Any one has such experience ?
Thanks in advance !
John

Hi
I think you are facing problem with corrrelation. Follow this procedure to define correlation : -
1. Switch from Container window to Correlation List, here define a correlation variable.
2. Now switch from Graphical Editor to Correlation Editor.
3. There in Correlation Name choose your Correlation variable.
4. In the Correlation Container define a variable.
5. In Involved Message window choose your message interfaces that are used to correlate. Here you should have message interface of your second receive step with another message interface.
6. Now in correlation editor's Properties window assign field of your involved message interface to the variable that you have defined in 4th step.
7. Now switch to Graphical Editor of you BPM. And Activate your correlation in First receive step and Use Correlation it in subsequent receive step.
This is the whole procedure to define a correlation and use it.
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we have a problem with a correlation.
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The step is completed by receiving a response.
The receiver step connects via sRFC to an R/3 system to trigger there an IDOC.
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I had the following problem. I have a very simple Sync/Async bridge, including a sync. reveiver (sr) at the beginning, as closing S/A bridge sender (ss) at the end, and a async. sender (as) and an async. receiver (ar) in the middle. My messages have an orderId that I use for my correlation.
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I temporarily turned my synchronous steps into asynchronous steps (sr and ss). Then I selected my correlation in the async. receive step and it "stuck". After my selection was accepted in the "use correlation" property of the async. receiver step, I turned my first and last step (sr and ss) back in to synchronous steps and had the desired result.
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Unable to see correlation in receiver step of BPM.

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I am designing a BPM in XI. In a receiver step I need a correlation. I am able to select a correlation from the drop down of the field "Activate Correlations" but when it is activated, the correlation is not displayed.
I am using SAP XI 7.4 and Service Pack 9.
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Hi Ashish,
... seems to be an error of the GUI.
Delete your step & correlation. Design correlation. Save & activate. Than use your correlation. Save & activate.
Regards Mario
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Message was edited by: Steven De Saeger

a correlation is required. try to give the correlation based on a unique field in the IDoc.
Ref checklist - http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/6d/94364296f1b26be10000000a155106/content.htm
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Hi everyone,
Hi have to design a BPM which has 2 synchonous receive steps. The first I open a asynch/synch bridge. In the second one I use correlation but the receive says asynchronous receive step. This has to be synchronous. I have to sent back a message to the request.
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Hi have to design a BPM which has 2 synchonous receive steps. The first I open a asynch/synch bridge. In the second one
I use correlation but the receive says asynchronous receive step. This has to be synchronous.
The Sync-Async communication means that there is a source system which operates in SYNC mode and there is one target system which cannot operate in SYNC mode....now in your scenario I cannot find a System which works in Async mode....all your communication is SYNC....so the SYNC-Async bridge concept does not apply here.
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i built a BPM in PI 7.0, in this i used a Receive step to start the BPM. in the subsequent steps this message has sent to the extrnal business sytem through the Send step. there it processes. then after some time this business system will send another message to the PI ( same BPM). so that i put a Receive step after the Send step and followed by remaining BPM steps for further processing.(My intention is this Receive step should receive the responce messageg from the same Business system). i did all the configuration steps.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
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- <SAP:Error xmlns:SAP="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Message/30" xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP:mustUnderstand="">
<SAP:Category>XIServer</SAP:Category>
<SAP:Code area="RCVR_DETERMINATION">NO_RECEIVER_CASE_ASYNC</SAP:Code>
<SAP:P1 />
<SAP:P2 />
<SAP:P3 />
<SAP:P4 />
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<SAP:ApplicationFaultMessage namespace="" />
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hi Udo,
i am explaining about message flow:
first the message comes from the http client to PI,then go to BPM as Receive step, then a Trasfermation step. then a Send step to send this message to the SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 (Async Receiver proxy). there this message will be processed (say some Application). after some time this Application sends a processed message back to the PI (BPM) as sender proxy message (Async). To receive this message i used a Receive step after the Send step. and also the remaining BPM steps are continued....
here the problem is, a Business system BS_HE6 is defined in the SLD to the corresponding ECC 6.0.
but while execution, (SXMB_MONI)
message from http client to the PI (BPM) is success full.
message send to the ECC 6.0 is successful, (receiver proxy)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
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<SAP:Category>XIServer</SAP:Category>
<SAP:Code area="RCVR_DETERMINATION">NO_RECEIVER_CASE_ASYNC</SAP:Code>
<SAP:P1 />
<SAP:P2 />
<SAP:P3 />
<SAP:P4 />
<SAP:AdditionalText />
<SAP:ApplicationFaultMessage namespace="" />
<SAP:Stack>No receiver could be determined</SAP:Stack>
<SAP:Retry>M</SAP:Retry>
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