Trading Networks 10.3 | Administering and Monitoring B2B Transactions | webMethods Module for EDI | Creating Clients that Send EDI Documents to Integration Server | Sending EDI Documents to Integration Server via File Polling
 
Sending EDI Documents to Integration Server via File Polling
 
Setting Up File Polling
Identifying the Service to Invoke
You can send an EDI document to Integration Server using File Polling. When you use File Polling, you define the:
*Directory that Integration Server monitors for files
*EDI content type to associate with the files placed in that directory
*Service to be executed to handle files placed in the directory
When files such as EDI documents are placed in this directory (for example, sent via FTP into the directory), Integration Server uses the content type you specify. Because the content type is an EDI content type, when Integration Server receives the EDI document in the monitored directory, it passes the document to the appropriate Module for EDI content handler. The content handler parses the document body and passes it in the edidata pipeline variable to the specified service.