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Connector Configuration

The following settings are available when you are sending IDoc files to SAP.

Control Record Information Options

When you are receiving IDoc files from one SAP system and sending them to another SAP system you might want to change the control record information without changing the IDoc file data. See Sending IDocs to SAP for more information. To overwrite the control headers for IDoc files, check Overwrite, then make your changes to the following options.

Advanced Settings

Settings not included in the previous categories.

Message

Message settings determine how the connector searches for messages and manages them after processing. You can save messages to your Sent folder or you can group them based on a Sent folder scheme, as described below.

Logging

Settings that govern the creation and storage of logs.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous settings are for specific use cases.

Sending IDocs to SAP

Once you have configured the IDoc connector to connect to your SAP system, you can begin sending IDoc files to SAP. The IDoc connector can send files formatted in raw IDoc or XML IDoc. You can configure the connector to automatically insert control record information into the IDoc being sent to SAP: the DOCREL, SNDPOR, SNDPRT, and so on. This makes it easier to process outgoing IDocs to the configured system. Configure these settings in the Control Record Information Options section of the Settings tab. Before sending an IDoc to your SAP system, make sure that you have properly configured a partner profile in SAP. If no partner profile in SAP matches the control record information in the IDoc you are sending, the data will not be processed by your SAP system. See Test Sending an IDoc to SAP for more information on setting up a partner profile.
You can use transaction code WE60 to search for segment documentation for different IDoc types.

Test Sending an IDoc to SAP

To test sending an IDoc to SAP, you first need to configure your SAP system to have a partner profile for Arc. The following steps describe how to do this with an ORDERS IDoc.
  1. Create a partner: Go to transaction code WE20 and define a partner profile. Set Partn Type to KU for Customer and Partner No to a valid customer number. Create a Partner
  2. Add an inbound parameter for the ORDERS document: The message type for this document is ORDERS. On the Inbound Options tab, set Process code to ORDE to tell SAP how to create a sales order when a purchase order ORDERS document is received by the SAP system. Set Parameters
  3. Assign the customer to a sales division: The customer configured in step one must be assigned to a sales organization, distribution channel, and division. Go to transaction VOE2 to configure these settings in the EDSDC table.