Value Mappings?

Hi All,
I refered the following scenario /people/community.user/blog/2007/01/08/valuemapping-using-the-graphical-mapping-tool
Value Mapping. In section
9. Enter the values for Source and Target. i want to know the following values automatically created for the Agency or do we need to create them manually. as i followed the same steps and noticed that the values are automatically created and i didn't added any values. How system would create such entries. and wht is the need of Group name column in value mappings.
Regards
Sami

Hi Abdus,
You have to manually specify the values at the run time.
Group Name :
Displays the different representations of an object.
A value mapping group is identified uniquely by a GUID. You can also assign a name to a value mapping group. This does not have to be unique.
The following information is displayed in the Display Value Mapping Group editor:
·        The editor header displays the ID (GUID), name, and description of the group.
·        The following information is displayed in a table in the work area for each representation:
¡        Agency
¡        Identification scheme
¡        Value
·        The name of the group is displayed on the tab page index in the object editor. The system displays the GUID if you have not assigned a name to the group.
Reward points if this helps
Regards
Vani.
Edited by: Vani on May 19, 2008 4:42 PM

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>
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I've came across a thread on SDN which is mention below.
value mapping
can anyone explain me what is value mapping and fix mappings and why we need them and wht is mapping lookups?
plz refer some weblogs which can explains in detail about value mappings, fixed mappings and mapping lookups?
pts will b rewarded
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Hi,
Hope this information is useful to you..
Value Mapping Blogs.
/people/community.user/blog/2007/01/08/valuemapping-using-the-graphical-mapping-tool
/people/sreekanth.babu2/blog/2005/02/23/value-mapping-replication
Mapping look up API
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/xi-code-samples/mapping%20lookups:%20RFC%20API.pdf
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why we can use for lookups.
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Look up tables
In the error handling topic we have seen the different validations which need to be performed on file.
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Look up employee information.
Lookup for raising an alert.
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Call lookup method from GUI mapping.
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/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/13/unable-to-open-iresrid-xipipi-71-updated-for-pi-71-support
Lookup - /people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/03/27/sap-xi-lookup-api-the-killer
DB lookup - /people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/08/23/lookup146s-in-xi-made-simpler
SOAP Lookup - /people/bhavesh.kantilal/blog/2006/11/20/webservice-calls-from-a-user-defined-function
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/406642ea59c753e10000000a1550b0
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/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/08/23/lookup146s-in-xi-made-simpler
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/406642ea59c753e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/12/06/optimizing-lookups-in-xi
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/people/sravya.talanki2/blog
/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/08/23/lookup146s-in-xi-made-simpler
/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2005/12/21/use-this-crazy-piece-for-any-rfc-mapping-lookups
/people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/03/27/sap-xi-lookup-api-the-killer
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/12/06/optimizing-lookups-in-xi
/people/morten.wittrock/blog/2006/03/30/wrapping-your-mapping-lookup-api-code-in-easy-to-use-java-classes
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Hello
I am trying to use value mappings in one of my scenario. My problem is for few of the source values I am having a similar target value.
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100 XYZ
101 ABC
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Value Mapping concentrates on the actual values that are being mapped.
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1 -
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/13/ba20dd7beb14438bc7b04b5b6ca300/frameset.htm -
value mapping
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Hi Sudarsana,
The types of message mapping viz. graphical, ABAP, java and XSLT - are the features of XI.
On the other hand, the types - structure mapping and value mapping - are general concepts. Any integration tool should support these.
Structure Mapping is not very much concerned which values are being mapped. It is more concerned about the structure of source and target elements.
It can be of two types (these don't have formal names as such)
1) Mapping values of some source elements to some target elements
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2) Mapping values after changing the element structure
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<name>
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<lname> --- </lname>
</name>
And target is
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So here we concatenate source elements and map to target.
Value Mapping concentrates on the actual values that are being mapped.
Sometimes the requirement is like although source and target strcutres are similar, values need to be translated into another set and then mapped.
e.g. we have an element called <TravelClass> in both source and target element.
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> economy
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hi
sdn experts,
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Value mapping
Value mapping : value mapping function to map different representations of an object to each other. You save the mapping rules for different objects in a value mapping table.
we have two types ,
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9202d890-0201-0010-1588-adb5e89a6638
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/43/c4cdfc334824478090739c04c4a249/content.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2a/9d2891cc976549a9ad9f81e9b8db25/content.htm
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/people/sravya.talanki2/blog/2005/12/21/use-this-crazy-piece-for-any-rfc-mapping-lookups
/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/12/06/optimizing-lookups-in-xi
/people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/03/27/sap-xi-lookup-api-the-killer
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File to Multiple IDocs (XSLT Mapping)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/01a57f0b-0501-0010-3ca9-d2ea3bb983c1
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9692eb84-0601-0010-5ca0-923b4fb8674a
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Hello,
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I would like to know the exact difference between the "FixValues" and Value Mapping. And the Scenarios of usage.
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9202d890-0201-0010-1588-adb5e89a6638
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I recently got acquainted with the fabulous world of value mappings in PI. Until now, FixValues did the trick for me, but now I have to modify the errors in someone else's work.
I read this article:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/00ee347e-aabb-2a10-b298-d15a1ebf43c5&overridelayout=true
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