What Translation When?ΒΆ

Bots figures out what translation to use via the translation rules. Best is to think of the translation rules as a lookup table:

look-up with (from-editype, from-messagetype, alt, frompartner and topartner) to find mappingscript, to-editype and to-messagetype

How the input values for the look-up are determined:

  1. editype
    • configured in the route
    • if you configure editype=mailbag, bots will figure out if editype is x12, edifact or tradacoms.
  2. messagetype can be:
    • configured in the route, eg for editype csv
    • for edifact, x12 and tradacoms: bots figures out the detailed messagetype. Example:
    • in route: editype: edifact, messagetype: edifact
    • in incoming edi file bots finds detail messagetype ORDERSD96AUN.
  3. frompartner can be:
    • configured in the route
    • determined by the grammar using QUERIES
  4. topartner can be:
    • configured in the route
    • determined by the grammar using QUERIES
  5. alt can be:

Note

  • For frompartner and topartner: bots finds the most specific translation.
    • Eg example with 2 translation rules:
      • fromeditype = edifact, frommessagetype = ORDERSD96AUNEAN008
      • fromeditype = edifact, frommessagetype = ORDERSD96AUNEAN008, frompartner=RETAILERX

    • If bots receives an ORDERS message from RETAILERX, the 2nd translation is used.

    • For other partners the first translation is used.

  • for alt-translations: only find the translation with that specific alt.