Making correct use of Mappings: Transformation Step in BPE

Hi everybody,
in SAP Docu, I found the recommendation to use Transformation Step only for those kind of mappings that cannot be done in the Integration Engine (e.g. n:1 mappings)
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d5/be364296f1b26be10000000a155106/frameset.htm
Can anybody give me the rationale behind this recommendation?
regards,
Peter

Peter,
That's because u have to use BPM for n:1 or 1:n type of mappings.It can't be done through normal map programs.Hence for the better design if u have normal map then u can perform mappings either before where BPM receive step will receive transformed message or after BPM where maps source message would be fetched from BPM.
Technically BPM transform step is the part of the workflow and it communicates with Java stack for mappings.Thus I guess eliminating Transformation step in normal map would reduce this communication time and thus improves the performance of the interface.
Regards
Rajeev

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Hello,
In my current BPM scenario....
1)I created the interfaces below for the Receive step (receives MT_Request):
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2)Then I created the interface and mapping for the transformation step:
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Hi Steve,
Below is the explanation for correlation by Anand Torgal which i think will be helpful to u....
To explain you the correlation in simple terms...take a simple example of BPM with a send step(async request) and receive step(async response). I am sending a PO request using the send step and waiting for a PO response using the recieve step. Assume that i have two instances of this BPM running i.e two PO request's going simultaneously. when i get the response back for these two requests , there will be two recieve steps waiting for the response since there are two instances of BPM running. the response need to be assigned the corresponding requests. This is where correlation comes into picture. I can use PO number as my correlation field. i.e I activate my correlation in the send step and use this correlation in receive step (this is configurable in BPM).
Example: PO number needs to be part both request and the response message structure.
BPM instance1:
send step -> activate correlation -> send message with PO Number1
Receive step -> use correlation -> receive response message with PO Number 1.
BPM instance1:
send step -> activate correlation -> send message with PO Number2
Receive step -> use correlation -> receive response message with PO Number 2.
There are many different scenario's whre you can use the correlation..this is one of them...The weblog shows another way of using correlation.
Also Refer SAP help...
Correlating Messages
Use
You use a correlation to assign messages that belong together to the same process instance. A correlation joins messages that have the same value for one or more XML elements. A correlation is therefore a loose coupling of messages: at design time, it enables you to define which message a receive step must wait for, without knowing the message ID.
For example, in a process, receivestep_1receives the message purchaseorder, while receivestep_2receives the message salesorder. Receivestep_1creates a correlation that defines that the corresponding sales order must have the same purchase order number. Receivestep_2uses this correlation. This means that an instance of the process processes a purchase order and the corresponding sales order, which has the same purchase order number.
If it satisfies the relevant correlations, a message can be processed in multiple processes. However, a message is only delivered once per process.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/a5/64373f7853494fe10000000a114084/content.htm
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BPM Error in Transformation Step: Interface Mapping not found

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Can you help me on this? I have a tranformation step in my BPM that combines a request and response message of a previous Send step to create a Source message for the next Send step. However, on my transformation step, I got the mapping error in workflow log: Interface mapping http://gl.euhreka.com/learning/skillsoft/catalogSy.YGLXI_OM_MergeRequestAndHandleResponseAB_To_PollFo (SWCV=DF8549309ECE11DFB58DF3570A341E0F) not found
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 <customerPassword>XXX</customerPassword>
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 <mode>VCC</mode>
 <userName>CC</userName>
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 </ns0:Message1>
 <ns0:Message2>
 <ns1:YGLXI_MT_InitiateFullCourseListingResponse xmlns:ns1="http://gl.euhreka.com/learning/skillsoft/catalogSynchronization">
 <reportHandle>SADA</reportHandle>
 </ns1:YGLXI_MT_InitiateFullCourseListingResponse>
 </ns0:Message2>
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I tested my program in Operation mapping and it is working. How come it is not in BPM?
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Jenny

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second send step is asynchronous , sending response received from website to a file server through file receiver channel.
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Making Effective Use of the Hybrid Cloud: Real-World Examples

May 2015
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The Buzz from Microsoft Ignite 2015
NetApp was in full force at the recent Microsoft Ignite show in Chicago, and it was clear that NetApp's approach to hybrid cloud and Data Fabric resonated with the crowd. NetApp solutions such as NetApp Private Storage for Cloud are solving real customer problems.
Hot topics at the NetApp booth included:
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Richard Treadway
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Figure 1) Cloud lets you closely align resources to demand.
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When NetApp IT needed to provide cloud services to its internal customers, the team naturally turned to NetApp hybrid cloud solutions, with a Data Fabric joining the pieces. The result is nCloud, a self-service portal that gives NetApp employees fast access to hybrid cloud resources. nCloud is architected using NetApp Private Storage for AWS, FlexPod®, clustered Data ONTAP and other NetApp technologies. NetApp IT has documented details of its efforts to help other companies on the path to hybrid cloud. Check out the following links to lean more:
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Hybrid Cloud Decision Framework [infographic]
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Data Fabric: NetApp Services for Hybrid Cloud
As the examples in this article demonstrate, NetApp is developing solutions to help organizations of all sizes move beyond cloud silos and unlock the power of hybrid cloud. A Data Fabric enabled by NetApp helps you more easily move and manage data in and near the cloud; it's the common thread that makes the uses cases in this article possible. Read Realize the Full Potential of Cloud with the Data Fabric to learn more about the Data Fabric and the NetApp technologies that make it possible.
Richard Treadway is responsible for NetApp Hybrid Cloud solutions including SteelStore, Cloud ONTAP, NetApp Private Storage, StorageGRID Webscale, and OnCommand Insight. He has held executive roles in marketing and engineering at KnowNow, AvantGo, and BEA Systems, where he led efforts in developing the BEA WebLogic Portal.
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Dave:
"David Scarani" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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I was looking for some real world "Best Practices" of deploying J2EEapplications
into a Production Weblogic Environment.
We are new at deploying applications to J2EE application servers and arecurrently
debating 2 methods.
1) Store all configuration (application as well as Domain configuration)in properties
files and Use Ant to rebuild the domain everytime the application isdeployed.
I am just a WLS engineer, not a customer, so my opinions have in some
regards little relative weight. However I think you'll get more mileage out
of the fact that once you have created your config.xml, checking it into src
control, versioning it. I would imagine that application changes are more
frequent than server/domain configuration so it seems a little heavy weight
to regenerate the entire configuration everytime an application is
deployed/redeployed. Either way you should check out the wlconfig ant task.
Cheers
mbg
2) Have a production domain built one time, configured as required andalways
up and available, then use Ant to deploy only the J2EE application intothe existing,
running production domain.
I would be interested in hearing how people are doing this in theirproduction
environments and any pros and cons of one way over the other.
Thanks.
Dave Scarani

Expression must return the interface type in Transformation Step in BPM

hi,
We are getting below while activating the IP,
Expression must return the interface type SI_Send_AA
Expression must return the interface type SI_Get_AA
No semantic errors found
We have a Transformation Step in BPM,
In OM, Source is SI_Send_AA and Target is SI_Get_AA
Also Container variable points to the same Abstract SI's.
Few Thread's for Same are error are:
Error in BPM
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Transformation step in ccBPM scenario
Error while compiling Business Process
Even after checking these i am getting this Exception.
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Also Container variable points to the same Abstract SI's
Are you sure that you are using Abstract Message Interfaces only and that these are referring to relevant container variables.
Normally it happens that there is some mis-match between the message types/ interfaces that we use in the mapping and that we use in the BPM.
If still not solved, then delete the Transformation step --> save --> activate......then again Edit the BPM to include the Transformation Step.
Regards,
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Error: "... is not a table ..." XML not correctly interpreted after XSL-transformation. Table row quantity problem.

Hey guys, this is one of my xml-elements:
Jaspreet Sohi 12 18 Juliane Lenz 11 17 Sophie Charlotte Stender 10 15 Rosbeh Hamidzadeh Khayyat 12 17 Lion Stoldt 12 17 Mats Lucas Meincke 6 8 Bero Luke Vincent Ernst 6 8 Cedric Roth 6 8 Soner Cantay 6 8 The following XSL Transformation I use once for transforming all "m" tags and once in order to transform all "j" tags. Please imagine the CSL-code below to be duplicated exactly. Only the "jungs"-table-Tag is replaced by "mädchen" and all underscores _j are replace by _m. As well all "select="j[@..." parts are replaced by "select="m[@...". 1 2 3 The code is very easygoing I think and not difficult to understand. As I said, I use it twice - for both transformations. The very, extremely weird thing, my problem, is that one transformation works perfectly in InDesign and a table is created for all "kategorie"-tags (all is set within a for-each loop). But the second script does not work! I simply do not get this I can't understand it. I've tried more than anything. InDesign sais (in German, so translated based on assumption) "jungs is an invalid table element or is displayed in wrong order". The second strange thing is that I can replace my "aid:trows" attribute by any number, e.g. "10" and immediately the script works fine (as there are never more than 6 "j" tags in my XML so that never the table has more than 6 rows"). But it does not want to work correctly with the actual number, my variable "rows_j". These are my variables: They are all defined before the tables for m and j are created. So finally, why (the heck) is one table created and interpreted perfectly whereas the second - immediately following the first in the XSL.script as an EXACT copy of the first - results in an error? As i've already said, I've tried really everything. For example the script works also when one of the parts "" is randomly deleted from the script. Removing one of these parts directly makes the script working. Just one of my attempts to understand the thing but this has only shown that none of these parts "cell to end-for-each" includes an error. I'm really desperate and looking forward to being rescued by one of you geniuses :)

Hah, No worries. The forum software is, well, different.
What would be better, though, would be a sample ID file, any XSLT/XLT files you use, and a bit of data exactly as you have it (pre-transform state). ZIP it up, upload to say dropbox.com and feel free to send me a private message for the download link.
Too many times there is something different between samples pasted into a post and the real thing that it is sometimes less useful time-wise. I'll keep it private, of course. Then we can communicate via PMs or email until we can (hopefully) arrive together at a solution, then post what that solution is in the forum to benefit others.
Thank you, Mike

Error in Transformation step of BPM

Hi all,
In BPM, I have defined a transformation step. For this, I have specified the Interface mapping which is between 2 abstract asynchronous interfaces. The Message Mapping for this Interface mapping involves multi-mapping (1:n) of the messages used.
Also, for naming convenience, I have kept the names of the abstract async interface and its message type same.
I have created containers for the message types of the both interfaces. The container for target message is of type 'multi-line'.
When I checked the integration process, errors (red boxes) appear for both - the source and target messages in the transformation step properties window. The error text says "Expression must return the interface type < Name of abstract message interface >"
What could be the cause of this error ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-Shankar

Hi Shankar,
Are you splitting the messages i.e 1 message into N messages ? If so, do you have multiple message types in the Message Mapping in the target side ?
Anyway, just recheck the Abstract Interfaces are activated. And reassign the container variables with Source message Absract Interfaces and Target message Abstract Interfaces.
The error tells that, there is somewhere occurence problem.. So that is mismatch with the Message Interfaces..because you have selected the Multiline in the COntainers right ? Check without that..if it is ok, to narrow down the debugging..
Regards,
moorthy
Regards,
Moorthy

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Hello,
I am using a transformation step in bpm, I have two source messages and 1 target message, I got an error 'expression must return the interface type XXXX(in source message)', I checked my source message in interface mapping and the container element, the types do match.
All the interfaces in the OM as well as in the bpm container definition are of type abstract.
It seems to have something to do with the interfaces belonging to different software components?
I declared a usage dependency from one swcv (holding the bpm) to another (holding the abstract interfaces which cause the error in the transformation step), so that I can reference them in the bpm.
I thought it might have something to do on how the message interfaces are selected in the operation mapping. so I tried to select the messages through the depencency path, but that was of no help either.
Have I been clear?
Any ideas?
Thanks
Matthias

Since no receiver information is available in the transformation step, there can be no value mapping within the transformation step. If the messages to be transformed give values in different formats, for example different date formats, you must first normalize the values before the messages can be processed in the process. To do so, define a message mapping with a corresponding value mapping.
Check the help page below for reference
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/27/db283fd0ca8443e10000000a114084/content.htm

Exception is not showing in transformation step in BPM after activating

Hi ,
I want to cancel the process if any mapping error occur in transformation step for that I designed by below steps.
1.Block step ( mentioned exeption)
2. transformation step ( Inside block mentioned block step exception)
3. exception branc inside block
4. contorl step (Cancel process inside exception branch)
after activating the BPM , in transformation step exception is not showing .
How to resolve this issue how
Please help me
Regards

2. transformation step ( Inside block mentioned block step exception)
Did you define the Exception Handler properly and also used the same in the Exception Branch? If you do a check in IR for your BPM (F7) do you get any error/ warning messages?
Regards,
Abhishek.

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