Specifying Processing Actions
You can use all of the Trading Networks processing actions for EDI documents.
If you want to process transactions from an inbound EDI document, for example, to transform that information into a format that is readable by an internal (back-end) system, you will primarily use the
Execute a Service action. You must create the service that the
Execute a Service processing action invokes.
In this scenario, the splitOption EDITPA variable must be set to Transaction or Group.
For the Interchange document, you could define a processing rule with no processing actions selected. This causes
Trading Networks to ignore the document because there is no need to process it. Alternatively, you could define processing rules that allow the Interchange document to fall through to the
Default rule, which only sets the
User Status system attribute of the document to IGNORED. If you use the
Default rule, you do not need to define a processing rule for the Interchange document.
If you are sending the inbound EDI document in
Trading Networks to simply deliver it to a destination without processing the file, you will primarily use the
Deliver Document By action, with the
splitOption EDITPA variable set to Interchange. In this scenario, the only document sent to
Trading Networks is the Interchange document. For more information about delivering documents, see
Forming EDI Documents to Send Outbound When
Using
Trading Networks .