Sponsored Development: EDI Import/Export

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License

GPL v2 - the same as Adempiere.

Project Team

Coordinator

Joel Stangeland

Functional Specs

Joel Stangeland

Developers

• Trifon Trifonov
• Low Heng Sin - Inbound processing

Testers

• Trifon Trifonov
• Idalica

Sponsors

• Idalica

Status

• Out band processing - Working!
  • Source location - contributions/253b/comxe/_Project-ID-EDI/
  • Instructions how to integrate with Adempiere - contributions/253b/comxe/ReadMe.txt
  • sf.net Tasks
    • EDI - VariableValue field to have expr: totalSegments-2 (link does not work)
    • EDI - QRS document (EDI 832) (link does not work)
    • Change the naming convention for the EDI document being produced. (link does not work)
    • Users should not submit EDI after they've already submitted it on (link does not work)

• Inbound processing - Working!
  • Develop componenet on JBoss Server which checks for new EDI documents on specified server(FTP).
  • Develop Adempiere class which handle import of EDI document into Adempiere instance.

Requirements

Outbound Processing

• From the document Invoice (Customer)

hit the "Submit EDI" button. "Submit EDI" button is active only after document is Completed.

Result:

• • Runs process that:
    • Look up the DocumentType to see what "Doc Type" to use.
    • Look up the BPartner
    • Look up right "EDI Format", "EDI Processor" for BPartner and DocType.
    • Read the EDI Format and the document lines to construct the EDI document.
      • Get the data strings using ColumnID, and use Type to decide which separator to use.
      • Order them by position.
      • Truncate lengths, validate usage.
    • Using the info from C_EDIProcessor submit the EDI document.

Inbound Processing

• • Use the scheduler to schedule a process that will poll according to the rules configured on C_EDIProcessor
  • Look up the Business Partner and EDI_DocType to determine which format to use to parse the file and which document type to create.
    • EDI element ST01 stores EDI code. Read this code and look it up in C_EDI_DocType.EDI_Code to return C_EDI_DocType_ID
    • EDI element ISA06 stores Interchange Sender ID. This represents a Business Partner. Read this code and look it up in C_Bpartner.C_EDI_Sender to return C_BPartner_ID.
    • Use C_EDI_DocType_ID and C_BPartner_ID to find the right C_BPartner_EDI record. This will tell you which doctype (AD_DocType_ID) to create, and which format (C_EDI_Format_ID) to use to translate the file.

As an alternative, C_EDIProcessor could define a JMS queue to post to. Then we could manage the movement of the data with ServiceMix.

Create new windows

Add Table: "C_EDI_DocType"

• • Fields: C_EDI_DocType_ID; Value, Name, Description, Help, C_EDI_DocCode (String, used to match with EDI element ST01)
  • Samples: (850 PO, 810 Invoice)

Add to "Document Type" window

• • Field: C_EDIFormat_ID

Add Table: "C_EDIFormat"

• • fields: C_EDIFormat_ID, EDI Format Name, Value, C_EDI_DocType_ID, AD_Table_ID, SegmentSeparator, FieldSeparator

Add Table: "C_EDIFormat_Line"

• • fields: C_EDIFormat_ID, Position, Value, Name, Comments, Type(Element, Segment)

Add Table: "C_EDIFormat_LineElement"

• • fields: C_EDIFormat_LineElement_ID, Position, Value, Name, IsMandatory, ElementType(Constant, Field), ConstValue, MinFieldLength

Add Table: "C_EDIProcessorType"

This table makes flexible addition of new types in future.

• • fields: Value(http, ftp, svn, cvs), JavaClass (this is class which is responsible to handle upload of EDI document)

Add Table: "C_EDIProcessor"

• • fields: Host, Account, Password Info, C_EDIProcessorType_ID

Add Table: "C_BPartner_EDI"

• • fields: C_BPartner_ID, C_EDIFormat_ID, Inbound(Y,N), C_EDIProcessor_ID, C_DocType_ID

Links

• Test blog created by EDI Export
• sf.net postOpenBravo weak side: Import EDI File is developed only for a concrete import order case.