Real Time Information Director User Documentation
RTID Metadata Language
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The header contains general information about the document. This example omits a few
fields.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<ORDERS05>
<IDOC BEGIN="1">
<EDI_DC40 SEGMENT="1">
<TABNAM>EDI_DC40</TABNAM>
<MANDT>016</MANDT>
<DOCNUM>0000000001651543</DOCNUM>
<DOCREL>46C</DOCREL>
<STATUS>30</STATUS>
<DIRECT>1</DIRECT>
<OUTMOD>2</OUTMOD>
<IDOCTYP>ORDERS05</IDOCTYP>
<CIMTYP>ORDERS05</CIMTYP>
<MESTYP>ORDRSP</MESTYP>
<SNDPOR>SAPAPL</SNDPOR>
…
<CREDAT>20030916</CREDAT>
<CRETIM>040122</CRETIM>
<SERIAL>20030916040120</SERIAL>
</EDI_DC40>
One important piece of header information is the identification of the source SAP system,
in the SNDPOR element. In this example, the source SAP instance is SAPAPL. The
identification of the source system is important in a few contexts to be discussed.
<E1EDK01 SEGMENT="1">
<ACTION>000</ACTION>
<CURCY>JPY</CURCY>
<WKURS>1.00000</WKURS>
<ZTERM>J328</ZTERM>
<BELNR>0300060645</BELNR>
<VSART>01</VSART>
<VSART_BEZ>STANDARD</VSART_BEZ>
<RECIPNT_NO>W0J008399</RECIPNT_NO>
<AUGRU>00</AUGRU>
<AUGRU_BEZ>New orders</AUGRU_BEZ>
</E1EDK01>
<E1EDK14 SEGMENT="1">
<QUALF>006</QUALF>
<ORGID>ZD</ORGID>
</E1EDK14>
<E1EDK14 SEGMENT="1">
<QUALF>007</QUALF>
<ORGID>ZZ</ORGID>
</E1EDK14>
The segment following the header is called E1EDK01. (Most segments in IDocs begin
with the characters E1.) The elements within this tag contains data specific to an order.
For instance, the BELNR element contains the sales-order number. Many of these tag
names are abbreviations of German words.
<E1EDK01 SEGMENT="1">
<ACTION>000</ACTION>
<CURCY>JPY</CURCY>
<WKURS>1.00000</WKURS>