Regarding File Adapters

Hello
I am working on File Adapters and would like to know as to how do you go about specifying the record substructure when you select the File Content Conversion in the Message Protocol of the Adapter configuration.I went through the help content on XI but was not clear.
Thanks and Regards

Hi Sharat,
Please go through these links:
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2
/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
I hope if it helps, you'll give me points.
Thanks & Regards
Varun Joshi

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Hi,
We did some tests regarding to UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding using file adapters. Our conclusion so far is (when using Windows OS):
1. Inbound adapter can handle UTF-8 and UTF-16 correctly, but do not specify the encoding!
2. XI mappings will set the XML encoding to UTF-8 correctly when sending an UTF-16 file to XI.
3. Outbound adapter can only handle UTF-8 (and US-ACSII and ISO-8859-1) correctly.
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>>Outbound file adapter bug.
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For UTF-16 the BOM is required and the adapter is handling this correctly. (encoding=UTF-16 will create the BOM).
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Thank u both for ur replay.........
I am doing this in 11g there is no problem regarding transform activity.
My requirement is
two different files from two different folders in a drive & we can't use one file adapter bcoz both have different columns(only few are common columns) so we use two different xsd's .So, i am using two file adapters to insert in database having two different tables with respect to two different files data coming from two file adapters. i am using one DB adapter to insert bcoz both tables are in same database with relationships & i used BPEL(define service later) .
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Regarding file content conversion

Re: regarding file content conversion
Posted: Sep 25, 2008 11:30 AM in response to: kummari Edit E-mail this message Reply
i tried.but m getting this error
Message processing failed. Cause: com.sap.aii.af.ra.ms.api.RecoverableException: Exception in XML Parser (format problem?):'java.lang.Exception: Message processing failed in XML parser: 'Conversion configuration error: Unknown structure 'ns1:MT_HyperionReport' found in document', probably configuration error in file adapter (XML parser error)': java.lang.Exception: Exception in XML Parser (format problem?):'java.lang.Exception: Message processing failed in XML parser: 'Conversion configuration error: Unknown structure 'ns1:MT_HyperionReport' found in document', probably configuration error in file adapter (XML parser error)'
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<ns0:MT_ECCReport xmlns:ns0="urn:syngenta.com:i_ecc_erp:se:global:fi_reports:common">
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<EndPeriod>55</EndPeriod>
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<Amount>855</Amount>
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LineItems.fieldSeparator 'nl'
MT_HyperionReport.fieldSeparator 'nl'
LineItems.fieldSeparator 'nl'
So please tell me what is wrong in this

MT_HyperionReport is your message type and this represents the top level node of your message. Below this you have your records. You have MT_HyperionReport as a record type which is clearly not going to work.
In the content conversion parameters section the following fields should be filled, you dont need to specify Recordset if your XML structure does not include this node see SAPhelp example:
Document Name: MT_HyperionReport
Document Namespace: <look at your message type in the designer>
Recordset Structure: Record_type1,<occurrence 1..>, Record_type2,<occurrence 1..>
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Record_type1.fieldSeparator
Record_type1.fieldNames
ignoreRecordsetName value true
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0f/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

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can any one send me the details about the sender jdbc adapter and the receiver jdbc adapter.
i need the output of sender jdbc adapter(structure)also fro the receiver jdbc adapter.
for file content conversion -
can any one send abt the sender and receiver of the FCC adapter.
also provide some links abt these in blogs.
thanks in advance .

Hi..
You can search those links in SDN.
FILE to JDBC Adapter using SAP XI 3.0 --Receiver Jdbc adapter .
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points will be rewarded ***

Hi Gordon,
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SAPXIAFC20P_9
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