Removing blank rows in File Content Conversion

The following is the snippet of XML in a file produced by the File Receiver Adapter using FCC. The mapping is fairly complex and results in blanks rows being outputed. I need to remove this but I don't want to change my mapping. I've tried using .fieldContentFormatting "trim" to no avail.
Once again, can anyone help me?
<Prices COLUMNS="IndexName, Date, IndexPrice">
Price_OU_gas,2007-05-01,23
Price_OU_gas,2007-05-01,65
Price_OU_gas,2007-05-01,66
Price_OU_gas,2007-05-01,12
Price_OU_gas,2007-05-01,56
</ GasPrices>

Crowe,
In the mapping only specify for the root node a Boolean funciton like:
If --> Source not equals to space then (put your mapping logic) ---> createif --> Target.
---Satish

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Remove blank line after File Content Conversion

I have a File>Conversion on PI7.0 (SP10).
It seems to add a blank line. The XML is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <ns0:EPIWCountFile xmlns:ns0="urn:com.somewhere.overthere.nothere">
<Personal_Area>LU</Personal_Area>
- <detail>
<recordCount>17</recordCount>
</detail>
</ns0:EPIWCountFile>
The conversion is done:
recordset Structure=detail,
name=detail.fieldseparator ,
The output file is
17
Hopefully you can see the blank line before the number!???
I have changed the contexts while processing, and played with other options, but it always adds a blank line at the begin.
All this file is a count of the number of records processed. (The personal_area is for a variable name for file/folder creation)
How can I remove the blank line, as the target system fails due to this anomaly?

If you are in a development environment, try this
Make your target structure
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <ns0:EPIWCountFile xmlns:ns0="urn:com.somewhere.overthere.nothere">
- <detail>
<b><Personal_Area>LU</Personal_Area></b>
<recordCount>17</recordCount>
</detail>
</ns0:EPIWCountFile>
Content conversion parameter
detail.fieldFixedLengths 0,2
detail.fixedLengthTooShortHandling Cut
P.S: If you need <Pesonal_Area> tag only for File/Folder Name, then why dont you use Adapter specific Identifiers to achieve the same.
Regards,
Jai Shankar

Unequal Number of rows for File Content Conversion

hi xi friends,
in my idoc to file ..
please help me in content conversion parameter for unequal number of rows .
the message type for external system..
root
row1
    f1
    f2
    f3
row2
    f4
    f5
row3
    f6
if i send idoc with data for all three rows
the resultant txt file
f1-valuef2-value f3-value
f4-valuef5-value
if i send idoc with data for row1 and row3
the resultant txt file
f1-valuef2-value f3-value
f6-value
if i send data for row2 and row3
the resultant txt file
   f4valuef-5vaue
   f6-value
in static message mapping ,i eleminated the rows which are not getting the data from idoc
eg:if the data for row2 does not exist ,then i elimated in message mapping.
all the fileds are fixed lenths like f1 3char and f2 8char etc..
and i dont require header names.
please guide me how to declare in Content Conversion for this unequal number of rows of fixed lenth columns.
regards
Munna

Hi Jai,
Thanks alot for your responses..
message mapping look like this,
IDoc-------------------root
segment1--------------     row1
f1------------------- f1
f2------------------- f2
f3------------------- f3
segment2--------------row2
f4------------------- f4
f5------------------- f5
segment3--------------row3
f6------------------- f6
(actually the idoc contains no of segments..i provided sample one above)
test data for f1=1111 f2=AAA f3=ccccc f4=222 f5=BB f6=33
all fields are fixed lenths
if idoc contains all three segments data
then reultant .txt file should be
1111AAAccccc
222BB
33
if idoc contains segment1 and segment3 data
then reultant .txt file should be
1111AAAccccc
33
if idoc contains segment2 and segment3 data
then reultant .txt file should be
222BB
33
in message mapping I eleminated the target message type segments
if that idoc doent contain data.eg:if the idoc doent contain data for segment2,
i eleminated in message mapping.
please guide me how to declare File content conversion parameters for this unequal number of rows
of rows.
regards
Munna

Remove Header Node in File Content Conversion

Hi Guys,
     In our scenario receiver payload is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns1:MarketInventoryResponse xmlns:ns1="PRINCIPALS/MarketInventory">
     <Header>
            <CurrentDate>200809</CurrentDate>
     </Header>
     <MarketInventory>
            <Local_ProductCode>121</Local_ProductCode>
            <WH_QTY>20</WH_QTY>
            <WH_Cost>3000</WH_Cost>
            <Store_QTY>40</Store_QTY>
            <Store_Cost>5000</Store_Cost>
      </MarketInventory>
</ns1:MarketInventoryResponse>
We are using File content conversion method. Now we got the output is
200809
121#20#3000#40#5000
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121#20#3000#40#5000
we don't need CurrentDate which is in Header node. So, how to ignore Header node in FCC method. Please any one help me.
Note : Now we using following parameters in FCC
Recordset Structure : MarketInventory
MarketInventory.addHeaderLine   : 0
MarketInventory.fieldSeparator     : #
MarketInventory.endSeparator      : 'nl'
Thanks & Regards
Vijay

Hi Vijaya,
You have two options:
1.- Sãnthosh Kûmãr V   Solution:
Recordset Structure : Header,MarketInventory
Header.fieldFixedLengths = 0
Header.fixedLengthTooShortHandling = Cut
Header.endSeparator = '0'
2.- Use Adapter-Specific Message Attributes in your File adapter.
In the last one you would have to set the name of your file in FileName atributte.
Carlos

Remove of quotes"' in the sender file adapter -- file content conversion

HI Guys,
MY source file is comma seprated file (,) in the file i had quotes" " for the data like
"5000543","0.00","03/04/2009",
is there any way i can remove the quotes in file content conversion
Please help me on this
Regards
Srinivas

Srinivas,
This should not be a big deal, because your fields are separated by a comma. So you need to keep in mind like you are doing the content conversion for a csv file.
See this blogs for some information:
/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
In the second blog 1345 there are parameters for content conversion. So similarly mention your conversion parameters in your sender communication channel. So after converting to xml your input fields have values like:
field1: "5000543"
field2: "0.00"
field3: "03/04/2009"
So all your field values has with "". Now you can use either standard replace funciton or a udf as given above and then it will remove the quotes and then you can map according to your requirements. If you think sometimes you can get quotes and sometime not in the file then you can use function like startswith or endswith along with exists and can map accordingly.
Regards,
---Satish

File Content Conversion Removes Leading Blank/Space

I'm having a problem where file content conversion is trimming leading blanks/space/whitespace from fields when reading in the inbound file. I've seen where people have posted that you need to use fieldContentFormatting to prevent content conversion from stripping the leading/trailing whitespace. I added that parameter to my list (see below example) but it still appears to be trimming the leading whitespace. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. Here are the details:
I'm using fixed length file content conversion for Sender File Adapter (SP15). I have the following parameters set:
Document Name = MaterialData
Recordset name = item
Recordset Structure = MaterialLine, 1
I have:
MaterialLine.fieldNames = matno_external, mat_description
MaterialLine.fieldFixedLengths = 40, 40
MaterialLine.fieldContentFormatting = nothing, nothing
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ZED00000001                             AIMS LIGHT A
ZED00000001                            AIMS LIGHT B
ZED00000002                             AIMS SWITCH A
ZED00000002                            AIMS SWITCH B
ZED00000003                             AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR A
ZED00000003                            AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR B
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- <ns:MaterialData xmlns:ns="http://xxxxxxx.com/yyy/test">
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
<matno_external>ZED00000001</matno_external>
<mat_description>AIMS LIGHT A</mat_description>
</MaterialLine>
</item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
<matno_external>ZED00000001</matno_external>
<create_date>10/09/06</create_date>
<mat_description>AIMS LIGHT B</mat_description>
</MaterialLine>
</item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
<matno_external>ZED00000002</matno_external>
<mat_description>AIMS SWITCH A</mat_description>
</MaterialLine>
</item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
<matno_external>ZED00000002</matno_external>
<mat_description>AIMS SWITCH B</mat_description>
</MaterialLine>
</item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
<matno_external>ZED00000003</matno_external>
<mat_description>AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR A</mat_description>
</MaterialLine>
</item>
- <item>
- <MaterialLine>
<matno_external>ZED00000003</matno_external>
<mat_description>AIMS SEMICONDUCTOR B</mat_description>
</MaterialLine>
</item>
</ns:MaterialData>

Thanks all for your attempts but I figured it out and wasn't this the biggest case of irony.
Here I was trying to prevent leading spaces from being trimmed in the loading of my file and my problem was that when I typed:
MaterialLine.fieldContentFormatting
I actually left a "blank" at the end of the "g" in Formatting. Apparently XI didn't like that and neither gave me a runtime or compile error. Anyway I found this and though I'd share in case anyone else encounters it. I removed the blank and all is working now.

File Content Conversion--- Removing Quotations from csv file

I have a csv file in the folowing format:
field1,field2,field3,field4
"111","222","333","444"
"aaa","bbb","ccc","ddd"
Suppose the header name is row in IR.
While configuring the sender file adapter in XI, i have given following parameters under file content conversion.
row.fieldNames=field1,field2,field3,field4
row.fieldSeparator=","
row.processFieldNames=fromConfiguration
row.beginSeparator="
After picking up the XML file XI processes the data so that we have out put as
row
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field2 222
field3 333
field4 444"
row
row
field1 aaa
field2 bbb
field3 ccc
field4 ddd"
row
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I tried using
row.endSeparator=" but it is still giving the same output.
Can anyone help ????????????????????????

Hi,
Try this FCC instead
row.fieldNames=field1,field2,field3,field4
row.fieldSeparator=,
row.processFieldNames=fromConfiguration
row.enclosureSign=u201C
row.enclosureSignEsc=u201Cu201C
row.endSeparator='nl'
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_NW04/helpdata/en/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/frameset.htm
If you specify xml.enclosureSign=u201C and xml.enclosureSignEsc=u201Cu201C, text enclosed in quotation marks is transferred unchanged and the quotation marks are removed.
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Hello everyone,
Here's my scenario: IDOC > XI > TXT (File Content Conversion)
Here's how my output XML currently looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns0:D001FILE_MT xmlns:ns0="http://www.pharmaindustries.com">
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   <Recordset>
      <MATLCODE>00155581</MATLCODE>
      <MATLNAME>ALCOHOL REFINED 96% V/V (BALAYAN)</MATLNAME>
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   <Recordset>
      <MATLCODE>00155581</MATLCODE>
      <MATLNAME>ALCOHOL REFINED 96% V/V (BALAYAN)</MATLNAME>
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      <MATLNAME>POLYSORBATE 60 SD (TWEEN 60 SD)</MATLNAME>
   </Recordset>
</ns0:D001FILE_MT>
Currently, the conversion settings in the receiver file adapter results into this:
BLANK
00155581          ALCOHOL REFINED 96% V/V (BALAYAN)
00155581          ALCOHOL REFINED 96% V/V (BALAYAN)
BLANK
20388853          POLYSORBATE 60 SD (TWEEN 60 SD)
I want to get remove the BLANK LINES from the text file so that it now resembles this:
00155581          ALCOHOL REFINED 96% V/V (BALAYAN)
00155581          ALCOHOL REFINED 96% V/V (BALAYAN)
20388853          POLYSORBATE 60 SD (TWEEN 60 SD)
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Recordset.fieldNames
Recordset.fieldFixedLengths
Recordset.endSeparator
Would anyone know which command I should add in this section so that empty "Recordsets" are removed from the text file?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
   as per my understanding, u have teo record sets
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      nothing but ignoring the first record set
     for second record set(which is not bold)
    provide FCC parameters which i have provided previously.
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      ignore recordset name - true
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warm regards
mahesh.

How to remove the footer in the file content conversion

HI
I have receiver structure like this
<Mt_test>
       <Node1>
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           <test2>name2</test2
       <footer>
          <test3>name3>
This is the structure. footer segment we need in pay load. so we can't skip anything in the mapping. But target we are using File content conversion. i want to remove the last footer segment in the file. Please help me this.
thanks
Sam

Hi Satish,
Thank for your quick replay.
attached payload i am receiving after the mapping. i need to eliminate footer node in my file.
Output should be like this.
20100201,200,2345.00
20100218,201,2345.00
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20100201,200,2345.00
20100218,201,2345.00
test0001---> should be remove this in the output file.
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<PLANT>200</PLANT>
<ZSTR_PLANT>2345.00;/ZSTR_PLANT>
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<PLANT>201</PLANT>
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Advanced Thanks
Sam
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HI All
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MessageTypeName
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SecondElement       1..1
Data               1..Unbounded
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I do not need the first line as a blank line. Can someone suggest how to avoid the default blank first line.
regards
Nilesh.

Hi,
Just check the below parameter's defined in the below example.
Below is the example when you have HEADER & ITEM structure.
FCC is case sensitive, give all the names in FCC same as your Data Type.
In <b>Recordset Structure</b> = Header,1,Item,*
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File Content Conversion CSV File

Hello All,
I have a CSV file in the below format.
a,b,c
And my content conversion works.
<1>a</1>
<2>b</2>
<3>c</3>
Sometimes I get the records in the file as
a,b,
My conversion is failing, I mean it give me file as
<1>a</1>
<2>b</2>
The last element <3></3> is not getting created.
I tried to use lastFieldsOptional its not working.
How can I achieve this.
Regards,

Okay Satish I will give a last try to explain you my issue..
my CSV file is like this a,b,c,d
my conversion works fine so the xml is after conversion
<1>a</1>
<2>b</2>
<3>c</3>
<4>d</4>
Now few rows in the file may come as a,b,c, there is no d value it is blank.
so I expect the conversion to be now
<1>a</1>
<2>b</2>
<3>c</3>
<4></4>
like this, but what I am getting now is after conversion...
<1>a</1>
<2>b</2>
<3>c</3>
tag <4></4> is not getting created and my Outbound expects the XML to be in that format, so for this I tried to use lastfieldsoptional so that empty <4></4> tag is created but no luck...
This is what I want to do..
In the process even though <4></4> is not created File Content Conversion is successful and so Adapter Monitoring is showing success and my mapping fails.
Regards,

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Hi Sudheer reddy,
        Good question.
File content conversion parameters are:
1) Doccument Name: Doccument name is nothing but message type name for file side: MT_FileSend
2) Doccument Namespace: mention the name space for the message type.
3) Doccument Offset: for which row and which coloumn doccument has to be write.
4) recordset name: mention the record set name: Recordset
5) Recordset Namespace: if the namespace is different for message type name space mention name space or otherwise it is blank.
6) Recordset Structure: Mention the structure name
7) Recordset Sequence: mention the sequence of the recordset Ascending or Decending
8) Recordset permessage: Would define no of record sets per message.
9) Key-field name: to query to the doccument
10) Key field type: string(Case-senstive)
fieldValues
fieldSeparator
endSeparator
Note: pls check in SDN about file content conversions it so many blogs are available, u can easily understand.
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Sateesh

Inconsistent Data for File Content Conversion

HI XI Friends,
Its IDOC to File Scanario,
File is of .txt file..
my IDOC contains 14 segments
some times some segements will not come with Idoc..
first three characters represent segment numbers..
structure of txt file
00112345       address1 street1
00212345       office1      street1
00312345       homw2     city2     street2
if that IDOC doent contain 002..then .txt file should be..
00112345       address1 street1
00312345       homw2     city2    street2
all Segement in that idoc are optional..
if I use Fixed lengh in File Content Conversion then ther would be blank row for 002 if that IDOc doent Conatin
00112345       address1 street1
00312345       homw2     city2    street2
please guide me...how to use content conversion in this case..
regards
Munna

Hi ,
Thank you very much for your response..
.txt file is of fixed lenths with no field Seperator
IDOC contains number segements..
the resultant txt file if we created first 3 segements data..
00112345 address1 street1
00212345 office1 street1
00312345 homw2 city2 street2
if we create 001 segment and 003 segement the text file should be
00112345 address1 street1
00312345 homw2 city2 street2
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if we are not sending 002 segement data in the IDOC ..then it will give blank
00112345 address1 street1
00312345 homw2 city2 street2
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please guide me
regards
Munna

File Content Conversion i.e Flat file 2 Flat file

Hi guys,
I am new 2 SAP XI
and i am trying 2 do "Flat File To Flat File".
Input File contains following data:
Name:varun
Surname:rajaraman
Address:B-2
Employee no:8204
i.e Each Data is in separate Row.
Output File Should contain the following data:
I am varun rajaraman staying at B-2 bearing employee no. 8204.
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i.e data should be in a single row.
So, i have a problem of reading the data from input file i.e data from each row and transfering it into output file along with which i need 2 insert "i am " ,"staying at", etc.
pls tell me the procedure in detail.
Thanks and regards
santhosh rajaraman

Hi,
Check this links for file content convertion.
File content conversion sites
/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
/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
/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/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30
/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
/people/jeyakumar.muthu2/blog/2005/11/29/file-content-conversion-for-unequal-number-of-columns
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2004/12/15/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-fixed-lengths-to-xi-30-using-a-central-file-adapter
/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d2/bab440c97f3716e10000000a155106/content.htm
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Phani
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Trailing spaces problem during file content conversion

I have developed a proxy to file scenario.And am using file content conversion for creating the file. The file is to be a fixed length file.
File Structure
<Header>
<Item>
<Item Trailer>
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Each tab in the file has the last character mapped to spaces.
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Item00000001        2006011700000000020060<blank   space>
The problem is that during file content conversion. XI does not preserve trailing spaces at the end of the line i.e.if a particular line in the file ends with space. It terminates the line at the last non-space character (in this case at 060).
However we are required to maintain these trailing spaces at the end of each line.
I have tried preserve white space in data type that does not work.
I know that xslt mapping may solve the problem but I am looking for a workaround with my current graphical mapping.
Looking for suggestions !!
Thanks,
Rashida

Hi,
I have the problem quite opposite to this where we are getting the trailing spaces at end of each record which should not come.
File structure is
<Record>
- <Data>
<Content>11/09/2007@210@ZACSL007@GBB-56436@PS01@29@1044@19@646@0</Content>
</Data>
</Record>
............. n records
<Header>
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</Header>
Record structure in communication channel used is
Header, Data
Data.fieldFixedLengths     1024
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Header.addHeaderLine     0
Header.fieldFixedLengths     0
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Data.fixedLengthTooShortHandling     Cut
Header.endSeparator     '0'
Actually if the length of record is less than 1024, rest of the length is being filled with spaces which should not occur.
Many advanced thanks.
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