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:

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:

   • configured in the route

   • determined by the grammar using QUERIES

   • set by mapping script in a chained translation

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.