B2B Integration 10.2 | Administering and Monitoring B2B Transactions | webMethods Module for EDI | Using Module for EDI Decoupled from Trading Networks | Configuring Module for EDI Decoupled from Trading Networks
 
Configuring Module for EDI Decoupled from Trading Networks
Before you can process EDI documents, ensure you have set up the items required for parsing and validating EDI documents and converting documents from EDI format to the format required by your internal applications and vice versa.
To perform these functions, Module for EDI uses flat file schemas. You create flat file schemas that define the structure of EDI documents. Also, you can create flat file schemas that define the structure of your internal format documents. You associate format services with your flat file schemas that are invoked to convert field values in a document from EDI format to the internal format, and vice versa.
The following high-level steps must be taken to create your own EDI solution.
Step
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1
Set up Module for EDI decoupled from Trading Networks.
2
Create flat file schemas for EDI documents.
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If you want to use EDI built-in services to convert internal-format documents (for example, documents from a back-end system) from IData objects to Strings and vice versa, create a flat file schema that defines the structure of the internal-format documents.
4
Configure how you want format services to convert field values in documents from EDI format to internal format, and vice versa.
5
Specify how to associate format services to fields defined in a flat file schema for an EDI document.
6
Create clients to send the EDI documents to Integration Server.
7
Create the services to process your EDI documents. The WmEDI package of Module for EDI provides built-in services that provide the functionality to support the EDI standard. When you create the service that processes your EDI documents, you add logic to invoke the provided built-in services.
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Use the wm.b2b.edi.util:generateFA service to generate and send functional acknowledgments (FAs) for EDI documents.
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Form EDI documents to be sent outbound.
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