This document aims to help the ABAPers to set up the necessary configurations to send IDoc from one system to another. This document will provide developers a good starting point on how to start and where to start after studying all the theoretical aspects of ALE/IDoc.

Scope of scenarios on EDI systems is outside the scope of this document. Also, sending Idoc by message control mechanism is not described here. Not there is any discussion of sending Idoc using BAPI.

• Client to Client ALE Setup
• System to System ALE Setup
• Two way Server to Server Communication with IDoc
• Some important topics on IDoc
• Developing and Transmitting New IDoc
• Standard SAP Idoc Extension
• Configurations and Programmings to Maintain Change Documents for new information
• Configuring and Developing for Change Pointers for a custom message type
• Downloading IDoc into Application server

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With this material you will get details of Error handling of an Inbound Idoc through triggering an event, which in turn will be triggering a workflow attached to the workflow.

Steps covered:

1. Create custom BOR object with the events, Start and Stop event
2. Create a workflow for the error handling, like generating a notification whenever an error occurred in the Inbound Idoc.
3. Creation of Function Module and attachment with the Process Code
4. Create the settings for the Inbound Process of the Idoc through the Process Code. Read more →