Field Seperators for File Adapter Missing , If Data in field is Initial

Hi All ,
I am working on Idoc to File Adapter Scenerio , The Issue is if one of the field is Initial , then the seperator(|) does not appear .
eg: if I have f1,f2, f3, f4 ... f10 columns
              v1,v2.......v10 are the values , If v3, v4 values are initial , the file has only 8 fields and number of field seperators are 7 and not 9 .
In the content conversion parameters , i had specified the
Row.fieldSeparator |
Row.endSeparator    'nl'
Row.fieldNames      f1d1|fld2|....|Fld10
Please advice
Regards
Chan

HI Chan,
Because if there is no value in the idoc fields , it will not generate XML tags for that. So you will get only 8 xml tags in your input xml.. Check this from SXMB_MONI->Input xml(Idoc xml).
For this you can make use of Exists node function in the mapping, with If-else functions. So if it exists map directly else map with constant value. So that you will get all the xml tags, so that all the fields..
Regards,
Moorthy

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