Dear all,

Is it possible to generate EDI messages(with the d96a standard) from the EDI module of BaaN(with a selfmade conversion), without using a translator?. We are using BaaN IV c4. At the moment we can get the inhouse file in BEMIS format, but is there a way to translate this into an EDIFACT standard without using a translator in BaaN??
Thans in advance.

Resul

The basic purpose of the translator is to translate the business document into the universal format. In translator, we need to map the fields from input file to those as per standard.

But if you can either create the conversion setup which will match closely with the translator output format and then run some shell/awk script on the file to make it to the translator output it could be possible.

Or you can write Baan 4GL program which can create ASCII file (using seq_open etc) to create the translator formatted output (may be with some hard coding for segements or elements etc or defining some parameter table for user to define) it might be possible.

-- Avinash

Hi,
Any EDI translator has two component-
1. COnevrt to and from EDI standard into or from Baan (In this case).
2. Communications from and to VAN.

So I guess one always needs a Translator. Even though we say we are dealing with EDI standard, in fact it can different for each Trading partner. And translator are not expensive. We use softhare translator and it is functionally very rich.

Arvind

Hi,

I agree to what Arvind says about using the Translator. but it is never a MUST. It depends upon

- Dealing with how many customers via EDI
- What are different messages they are using
- Whether any communication channel is required or not (like VAN / XML / MQ etc)

With some of my client's places, we have implemented EDI without using Translator.

-- Avinash