Filtering by value

Question

Hi,
I have a source message with that structure:
<item>
MATNR
DESCRIPTION
DATE
</item>
And I'm mapping to a target structure with the same fields.
But in my message mapping I want to ignore/delete the items where the value of field DATE is a DATE lower thatn system date.
For example if system date is 23/05/2008:
Source Message:
<item>
MATNR = '30'
DESCRIPTION = 'aaa'
DATE = '22/02/2008'
</item>
<item>
MATNR = '31'
DESCRIPTION = 'bbb'
DATE = '30/09/2008'
</item>
Target Message:
<item>
MATNR = '31'
DESCRIPTION = 'bbb'
DATE = '30/09/2008'
</item>

Answer 1

Hi Marshal
You can do it in normal mapping and you do not require to use any UDF.Always follow a simplest and elegant approch
Follow these steps
1) first you Take Current Date function from DATE category function
2)Then  Use Compare Date function from DATE category function
3) Compare current date and Date field using Comapre date function.
4) then use Equals function (for the string) from text second input for Equals function is "TRUE" or u201C1u201D
5) after that use IF function and give the above condition in IF part and assign current date
6) in the else part assign a constant , double click on constant and make  empty value to that constant.
By this way you can make comparision  and if the value comes true then it will assign current date else it will assign blank value
Hope this may solve your problem
Thanks
Sandeep
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