Mapping activity step in BPM and related complex functions/conversions

Hello Experts,
a) I am trying to find out the complex conversions used in BPM process modelling activities such as mapping activity.
What are the different complex conversions/functions which are very widely used/required in BPM projects?
I am talking about custom functions and not the standard functions and rules provided by BPM mapping editor.
b) How do we write a log function which can be used in mapping to log some attributes used in mapping to the java log.
It is just additional logging feature on the top of standard BPM logs. But this additional log feature will be useful in reading logs for each step.
c) I am getting only one document having 3 examples for EJB mapping function (concat, filter, and one good fair )- can anyone provide any other functions and details around in this area?
thx
mike

Hi Mike,
Strongly suggest you close this discussion and create 3 new discussions - one for each separate question. When you pile up multiple questions, often people aren't sure which one to answer, and the discussion stream tends to get very confused.
That's likely to be why no-one's responded in the last 5 days.
Rgds,
Jocelyn
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Mapping activity step in BPM

I am trying to find out the complex conversions used in BPM process modelling activities such as mapping activity.
What are the different complex conversions/functions which are very widely used/required in BPM projects?
I am talking about custom functions and not the standard functions and rules provided by BPM mapping editor.
thx
mike

Hi Mike,
Strongly suggest you close this discussion and create 3 new discussions - one for each separate question. When you pile up multiple questions, often people aren't sure which one to answer, and the discussion stream tends to get very confused.
That's likely to be why no-one's responded in the last 5 days.
Rgds,
Jocelyn
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Identify sold to and related partner functions .

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I was not able to find out sold to , bill to and payer in customer attribute .
in cust hierarchy , i could not see any structure .
Do u know T-code to see customer hierarchy in ECC. ?
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BPM and Flat File

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I need to send via BPM a file from a sender system to a target one.
The file has to be delivered as-is without mapping.
In ESR I prepared all service interfaces, outbound, inbound and abstract and in configuration integration builder I customized the receiver determination and interface determination using the correct service interfaces.
In interface determination vs the target I specified just the inbound service interface, according with the SEND step in BPM and not an operation mapping that doesn't exist.
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Transport Acknowledgement in an Ansynchronous Send Step in BPM

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This made me think of something else...
This SAP help site http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/65ce41ae343e2be10000000a1553f6/content.htm
says - for a "Permanent negative acknowledgment" the "Send step triggers system error for which you can define a specific exception handling."
I understood this as saying "If the tartget file is not placed, a system error is thrown for which we can write our own exception handling"
In the scenario explained in the blog the 'deadline branch' was made to wait for a few miutes and once exceeded, made to throw an exception "NegAck" which is handled in the "Exception handler branch"
So what i tried was, I removed the 'deadline branch' and retained only the 'exception handler branch' and made the 'send step' to throw a system error "NegAck" so that if the "Send Step" recieves a negative acknowledgement, it would throw this error "NegAck" which I have handled in the "Exception Handler Branch"
However, this did not work. Can anyone kindly explain where was my mistake?

Dear Bharath,
hmmm nice question...
The answer to this is....whenever you configure a async send step with "transport ack" it will never go into error..
the send step will either get a positive ack(if the file reaches correctly) or a negative ack(if there is some problem like password expires) but it will will never go into error and hence directly the control will never go to exception handler block...
consider the cases :
1. Async send step with transport ack and file reaches correctly : +ve ack is generated and BPM will stop
2. Async send step with transport ack and passowrd expires : the send step will not go in error but you will get error in adapter engine(RWB) so it will keep on restarting and corresponding negative ack will keep on getting generated but here also the send step has not gone to error but the message in AE has gone into error and hence control will not pass directly to exception handler block....what you can do is keep a timelimit thru deadline branch so that after that much time control goes to exception branch...
This should solve your problem...
do not forget to close the thread marking useful answers after your query is resolved
Edited by: Tarang Shah on Mar 30, 2009 4:10 PM

Receiver Determination with Synchrnous Send step in BPM

Hi,
Is there any way to use BPM Receiver Determination step type with Synchronous send step ?
Is it possible to send a request to multiple receivers synchronously and capture the response?
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Thanks,
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Activity Step (Outcome)

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I am involved with converting legacy data into SAP. To populate the SAP Vendor Master correctly will involve 3 passes using LSMW:
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Pass #2: use BAPI: Business Object "BUS4001"; Method "SAVEREPLICA"; Message Type "ADRMAS"; Basic Type "ADRMAS03" to update Vendor record address data.
Pass #3: use IDOC CREMAS04 and update Head Office, Alternate Payee, and related Partner Function data.
The problem I am having is best explained using the following example:
When a vendor record (ex: Vendor Number 300004) is first created, the following 3 Partner Functions are also created automatically to reference the same vendor number: OA, VN, & PI (Ordering Address, Vendor, & Invoicing Party):
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OA    Ordering Address    300004   Vendor A
OA    Ordering Address    300005   Vendor A
VN    Vendor                   300004   Vendor A
PI      Invoicing Party        300004   Vendor A
PI      Invoicing Party        300005   Vendor A
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Don,
I am trying to work with the same data that you discussed in this thread. Can you send me some additional details on your Pass #2? I was successful in Pass #1, particularly in adding new PI vendors when necessary and deleting the existing internally created PI vendors. But I'm stuck on Pass #2 where I want to add the extended address information that you mention using the SAVEREPLICA BAPI. I can certainly use the recording method, but would like to leverage the power of the BAPI approach.
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Hi All
I have done a BPM which collect messages and send them to a file adapter in one message.
I have added a tranformation step , which uses the interface mapping IM_map
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Mapping errors between data object and automated activity

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in a automated activity of a bpm process I try to call a web service method ("addBook") which exptects an object called u201CbookWrapperu201D. The object "bookWrapper" consist of three variables: u201Cbidu201D (Integer), u201Cauthoru201D (String), u201Ctitleu201D (String).
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Hi Martin,
From the error that you get, it is indicated that you try to map a list to a single variable.
If you want to do so, please see the documentation http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce711/helpdata/en/47/63604e42bf6831e10000000a421937/frameset.htm where it is said:
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Is there any Data Mapping document Between S&OP ( model that uses supply planning operator ) and SAP ECC that I will help the client in Data Mapping activity.

Hello All,
Is there any Data Mapping document Between S&OP ( model that uses supply planning operator ) and SAP ECC that I will help in Data Mapping activity.
Thanks,
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There are standard templates in HCI data sources.
e.g. 1) Customer Master data template is SOP_MD_CustomerMaster for extracting master data from SAP ECC and load it to S&OP
KNVP is the table for customer in ECC from that you can select the fields as required
KUNNR for customer Number
ADRNR for Address
List of a few commonly used table names of ECC:
Product Related:
MARA – Material Master (MATNR)
MARC – Material Master with Plant Data (MATNR, WERKS)
MARD – Material Master with Storage Location Data (MATNR, LGORT, WERKS)
MAKT – Material Master Material Descriptions (MATNR, MATKL)
MBEW – Material Valuation Data (MATNR, BWTAR)
MVKE – Material Master : Sales related Data
MDKP, MDTB – MRP related Data( Header, Item)
MCHA, MCHB – Material Batches (Header, Item) (MATNR, WERKS, LGORT, CHARG)
Vendor/Supplier related:
LFA1 – vendor data (LIFNR)
LFB1 -- Company Code Segment : Vendor Data(LIFNR, BUKRS)
LFC1 -- FI Related Vendor Data (LIFNR, BELNR)
LFM1 – Pur. Orgn. Related Vendor Data (LIFNR, EKORG)
PReq/PO, BOM Related:
EBAN – Pur. Req. Data( BANFN, BNFPO, BADAT, MATNR)
EINA – Purchase Info. Record(General Data)(INFNR, MATNR, LIFNR)
EINE – Purchase Info. Record (pur. Orgn. Data) (INFNR, EKORG)
ELBK, ELBN, ELBP – Vendor Evaluation Related Data
EKKO – PO Data (Header) (EBELN, BSTYP, BSART)
EKPO – PO Data (Item) (EBELN, EBELP, MATNR)
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MKPF – GRN Data (Header) (EBELN, BLDAT, BUDAT, XBLNR, BKTXT)
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EQUK – Quota (Header)(QUNUM, MATNR)
EQUP – Quota (Item) (QUNUM, QUPOS, LIFNR)
EKBE – PO History Data (EBELN, EBELP, BELNR, BLDAT, MATNR, VGABE)
EKBZ – PO History with Delivery Costs(EBELN, BELNR, LIFNR, XBLNR)
EKET – Schedule lines data of a PO(EBELN, EINDT, SLFDT)
EKES – Vendor Confirmations Data (EBELN, EBTYP, EINDT, XBLNR)
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T024E – Purchase Organizations
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T134 – Material Types
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VBAK : Sales Document(Header Data) (VBELN)
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Type(VBTYP Field) in VBAK, VBAP Tables for Enquiry VBTYP = A, for Quotation ‘B’ & for Order it is ‘C’.)
LIKP : Delivery Table(Header Data) (VBELN, LFART, KUNNR, WADAT, INCOL)
LIPS : Delivery Table(Item Data)(VBELN, POSNR, WERKS, LGORT, MATNR, VGBEL)
(LIPS – VBGELN = VBAK- VBELN, LIPS-VGPOS = VBAP-POSNR)
VTTK : Shipment Table(Header Data) (TKNUM)
VTTP : Shipment Table (Item Data)(TKNUM, TPNUM, VBELN)
(VTTP – VBELN = LIKP – VBELN)
VBRK : Billing Table(Header Data) (VBELN, FKART, BELNF)
VBRP : Billing Table(Item Data) (VBELN, POSNR, FKIMG, NEWR, VGBEL, VGPOS)
(VERP – AUBEL = VBAK- VBELN, VBRP – VBEL = LIKP – VBELN)
Apart from these tables there are lot of other tables which starts with ‘V’, but we use the
following tables frequently.
VBUK: All Sales Documents status & Admn. Data(Header) (VBELN, VBTYP)
VBTYP = ‘C’ (Sales Order) VBTYP = ‘L’(Delivery) VBTYP = ‘M’(Invoice)
VBUP: Sales Documents status & Admin. Data(Item) (VBELN, POSNR)
VBEP : Sales Document Schedule Lines Data (VBELN, POSNR, EDATU, WMENG)
VBKD: To get sales related Business data like Payment terms etc.(VBELN, ZTERM)
VBFA: Sales Document flow data(VBELV, VBELN, POSNV, VBTYP)
VBPA: Partner functions Data(VBELN, PARVW, KUNNR, LIFNR)
TVLKT: Delivery Type: Texts(LFART, VTEXT)
KNA1, KNB1, KNC1 : Customer Master Data and Other Partner’s Data(KUNNR,
NAME1,LAND1)
KNVK: Customer Master Contact Person(PARNR, KUNNR)
KNVV: Customer Master Sales Data.
LFA1, LFB1, LFC1: Vendor Master Data(To get Transporter data)(LIFNR, NAME1, ORT01)
MARA, MARC, MARD : Material Master Data(Basic, Plant, St. Location Views)
TVKO: Sales Organizations(VKORG)
TVKOV: Distribution Channels(VTWEG)
TVTA: Divisions(SPART)
TVKBZ: Sales Office(VKBUR)
TVBVK: Sales Group(VKGRP)
T077D: Customer Account Group(KTOKD)
T001W: Plants(WERKS)
T001L: Storage Locations(LGORT)
TWLAD: To get address of Storage Location and Plant(LGORT, ADRNR)
TVAU: Sales Document (Order) Types
KONV: Condition Types (pricing) (KNUMV, KSCHL, KWETR)
T685T: Condition Types Texts.
ADRC: To get Addresses of Partners
VBBE, VBBS: Sales Requirements Data
VBKA: Sales Activities Data
VBPV: Sales Document Product Proposal
Based on the functionality you can search ECC table names and fields
Hope this information is helpful for you.
Thanks and Regards,
Anjali

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