What translation when?
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:
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editype
- configured in the route
- if you configure editype=mailbag, bots will figure out if editype is x12, edifact or tradacoms.
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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'.
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frompartner can be:
- configured in the route
- determined by the grammar using QUERIES
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topartner can be:
- configured in the route
- determined by the grammar using QUERIES
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alt can be:
- configured in the route
- determined by the grammar using QUERIES
- set by mapping script in a chained translation
Notes:
- 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.
- Eg example with 2 translation rules:
for alt-translations: only find the translation with that specific 'alt'.