Document Type Maintenance

A unique identifier for the Document Type.

Text description for the Document Type.

This is a general purpose value that can be used to group various document types according to the context in which they are used. The DISCOVER_DOC activity (if used) will match this value against a user-entered value for parameter DOCTYPEGROUP.

When processing a document, only those document type with the same Group as the one specified will be considered. When not entered, a value of blank is assumed.

Sequence of processing. The DISCOVER_DOC activity (if used) will compare incoming documents against Document types with smaller Document sequence number first. Once, a match is found, comparison stops and the remaining Document types are not considered.

The behaviour of the DISCOVER_DOC activity is undefined if there are two document types with the same Group and Sequence number.

The file extension that applies to this document type.  The DISCOVER_DOC activity (if used) will use this value to determine the document type for a document based on the file extension of the in-coming document.

For example, the file 'myfile.order.xml' has a file extension of 'xml' and could be eligible to be matched to a document type definition with that extension.

This field may be used for extended file extension matching for documents that use more than one file extension in their name - for example, 'myfile.order.xml' If not blank, the DISCOVER_DOC activity (if used) will use this value to determine the document type for a document based on the second extension (the second from the right) of the incoming document.

For example, the file 'myfile.order.xml' has a secondary file extension of 'order' and could be eligible to be matched to a document type definition with that secondary extension.

A string to be compared against the filename. If not blank, the DISCOVER_DOC activity (if used) will use the value to determine the document type for a document based on the filename of the in-coming document. If there are more than two extensions, the third extension onwards will be included in the filename comparison.

In constructing a Document name mask, the following placeholder characters may be used:

  ?  :  will match any single character at the specified position of the filename

  * :  will generically match any/all remaining characters in the filename

Examples:

   *       - Will match any file (equivalent to omitting this parameter value)

   ab*     - will match files whose names begin with 'ab'

   ???d* - will match all files whose names contain 'd' in the 4th position

Comparison is case insensitive.

Specifies the processing sequence that processes inbound transaction documents of this document type.

The DISCOVER_DOC activity (if used) will return this identifier in the DOCPSEQ output parameter, such that the containing processing sequence may invoke the appropriate processing for the discovered document type of the incoming document.

Similarly the DISCOVER_MAP activity can be used to discover this processing sequence identifier (providing the transformation map has been linked to a document type and standard in the Data Interchange attributes for the map).

Specifies the processing sequence that processes outbound transaction documents of this document type.

The DISCOVER_MAP activity can be used to discover this processing sequence identifier (providing the transformation map has been linked to a document type and standard in the Data Interchange attributes for the map).