The Outbound Process
Note 1: the following descriptions relate to the outbound processes as supplied with LANSA Composer. Naturally it does not take account of modifications that may have been made to suit a particular installation.
Note 2: you are strongly advised to make your own copies of the supplied Processing Sequences and use or modify the copies. For further information, please refer to Copy the Supplied Processing Sequences Before Use.
The supplied outbound process is designed to be modular - that is, it is broken down into more than one Processing Sequence with the main Processing Sequence calling the subsidiary Processing Sequences as required.
The main outbound Processing Sequence is:
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TXDOC_OUTBOUND |
Processes outbound transaction documents |
This Processing Sequence can be run for one named Trading Partner, or for all eligible Trading Partners according to the value of the corresponding parameter. Other parameters allow you to select the document type, standard and/or transaction types that it will process. It performs the following main steps:
- Identifies the outbound Transformation Maps linked to each Trading Partner (that also match the other parameter values if specified)
- For each, it calls the outbound Processing Sequence associated with the document type for the Transformation Map.
LANSA Composer is supplied with outbound documents of types EDI and XML configured to be processed using the following Processing Sequences:
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TXDOC_OEDI010 |
Processes outbound EDI transaction document files |
| TXDOC_OXML010 |
Processes outbound XML transaction document files |
In each of those processing sequences, once the outbound document file(s) have been prepared, the supplied TXDOC_SEND processing sequence is executed to send the document file to the trading partner. This processing sequence, as supplied, includes provision for executing processing sequences that are specific to one or more trading partners, providing the possibility of tailoring the outbound transport for each trading partner.
Note that, as supplied, the TXDOC_SEND processing sequence is also used to serve the capability in the LANSA Composer Document Manager application.