Sender File adapter : Alert are possible.

Dear All
i had a Scenario of file to jdbc.I am using FCC(content conversion ) at sender file adapter.
if the file is not having proper text field,or if its's blank file...
i want to generate an alert..
while testing with a blank file , my file sender adapter is giving the error but their are no alert...
even in alert rule , i had specified file adapter ,Sender/Receive interface also
Rsalerttest : working properly.
Rsalertdisp : no dump for sender file adapter error
for mapping error my other alert rule are woking and generating the alert sucessfully.. for the same interface
any guess where could be the error..
Regards
Ajay Pant
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Message was edited by:
ajay pant

HI,
For alert configuration see the belowlinks,.But in your case if the send message having the empty fields, we can handle this in FCC parameters
xml.fieldoptional = yes
Parameter NameA.fieldFixedLengths defined.
○ If the inbound structure contains more fields than in NameA.fieldNames or NameA.fieldFixedLengths the conversion is executed.
Additional fields in the structure are ignored.
○ If the inbound structure contains less fields than specified in NameA.fieldNames, conversion is terminated with an error message.
If the last field only is shorter than defined or is missing completely, the conversion is executed. The contents of the last field are then applied to the XML element as found. Consequently, the value can be incomplete or empty.
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/09/09/xi-alerts--step-by-step
for CCMS
/people/aravindh.prasanna/blog/2005/12/23/configuring-scenario-specific-e-mail-alerts-in-xi-ccms-part--1 -- ccms alerts - 1
/people/aravindh.prasanna/blog/2005/12/24/configuring-scenario-specific-e-mail-alerts-in-xi-ccms-part-2 -- ccms alerts -- 2
/people/aravindh.prasanna/blog/2006/02/20/configuring-scenario-specific-e-mail-alerts-in-xi-ccms-part-3 -- ccms alerts --- 3
Chilla

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