Real Time Information Director User Documentation

RTID Metadata Language
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Real Time Information Director (RTID) Metadata
Language
Table of Contents
Introduction to Director Metadata....................................................................................3
Overview of this Document.............................................................................................4
Role of Metadata.............................................................................................................4
Reasons to Customize Metadata......................................................................................5
Characteristics of Director Metadata ...............................................................................5
Director Metadata Is Descriptive.................................................................................6
Director Metadata Is Polymorphic ...............................................................................6
Director Metadata Is Implemented in Java...................................................................7
Director Metadata Is Easy to Write, in Most Cases......................................................7
Types of Document Definitions.......................................................................................7
Types of Document Metadata..........................................................................................8
Content Metadata and Native Document Definitions.......................................................9
Metadata Excerpt: A Native Document Definition......................................................9
Specifying a Native Document ..................................................................................12
DocumentRecord.......................................................................................................13
RequestRecord ..........................................................................................................13
Arrays of Nested Metadata........................................................................................14
RelatedRecords .........................................................................................................14
SplitRecord ...............................................................................................................15
Links.........................................................................................................................15
DependentLinks ........................................................................................................16
HistoryRecord...........................................................................................................18
Update and Query Options for Document Definitions................................................18
SQL Keys..................................................................................................................20
Native Document Format ..........................................................................................20
Format Metadata and SAP Intermediate Documents......................................................20
Specifying a Unique IDoc .........................................................................................21
Metadata Excerpts: An IDoc Definition....................................................................21
XML IDoc Format ....................................................................................................24
Metadata Excerpts: Format Metadata........................................................................26
IDocSegment.............................................................................................................28
The IDoc Header.......................................................................................................29
The IDOC class.........................................................................................................29
The IDoc Segment.....................................................................................................29
FieldElement.............................................................................................................30
FieldsElement ...........................................................................................................30
Qualified Segments ...................................................................................................31
QualifiedSegment......................................................................................................33
SegmentQualifier ......................................................................................................34