SRM XML PO Output

Question

Hi Guys,
We have XML output enabled on our vendors in SRM 5 and the purchase orders and attachments are outputting perfectly to XI/PI. An issue we noticed is that the SAP-XML PO coming out does not have an attachment reference to the SOAP content-id.
Looking in SXMB_MONI we see the PO XML comes out with an attachment reference such as this:
<Attachment id="1 .Testing for attachments %25252D" filename="Testing for attachments %25252D 03%25252Etxt">Testing for attachments - 03</Attachment>
One would assume that the ID attribute would be the reference to the actual attachment in the mime/soap message, but if you check the SOAP_BODY in sxmb_moni you see the following for the attachment.
--SAP_4cda9980-5c05-11de-8fbf-001b78b8b8f6_END
content-id: payload-977C394ACDF9EC64E100000095C342AAsap.com
content-type: text/plain
One would assume the attachment ID in the XML should be the reference to the "content-id" field in the mime message.
I would expect something more like this:
<Attachment id="payload-977C394ACDF9EC64E100000095C342AAsap.com" filename="Testing for attachments %25252D 03%25252Etxt">Testing for attachments - 03</Attachment>
Can anyone shed some light on this or know where the "payload-977C394ACDF9EC64E100000095C342AAsap.com" value is generated so we can enhance the outbound badi for the PO to include that value in the PO XML.
Regards,
Joe

Answer 1

Hi Joe
payload is purely XI part.
SAP Note 1082111 - Mapping of messages with empty payload
An XI message is made up of several parts, such as:
o a main header that contains, for example, the message ID, sender
and receiver of the message,
o a payload,
o any other attachments,
o a manifest containing the references to the payload and the
attachments.
plz consultant xi folks
br
muthu