Hi All,

I have a requirement, where I need to merge or concatenate two different BODS.

For Example:

I have two Service Orders and I am publishing the Service Transactional data through Publish BOD session. So there would be n no. of BODs would generate for n no. of Service Orders. So I need to merge them to a single file and map to the required BOD format.

Thanks,

Hi,

Any suggestions or any input if someone has, please share!!

Thanks

Not sure where you "are" in this process, but are you talking about LN Studio??
I think I saw you can combine different BII's into one by "consuming", merging two BODs effectively into one.

Or talking from the Dataflow perspective? I am not sure if this can be done, since only a splitter is available not a "merger"...

A bit further now in our own way through the BOD/BDE world and found this interesting option: In a BOD Extension you can quite easy call a BDE, put its result in an XML and merge that XML into the BOD result...

| If there is no BDE show request yet? Create it!
if in.xml = 0 then
in.xml = xmlNewNode("ShowRequest") | showrequest
da.xml = xmlNewNode("DataArea", XML_ELEMENT, in.xml) | container
endif
if in.xml <> 0 then | Add: bpid from interface in request
req.xml = xmlNewNode("MyBDEname", XML_ELEMENT, da.xml)
ret = xmlRewriteDataElement(req.xml, "BDEidentifier", trim$(Identifier))
endif
if in.xml <> 0 then | we gathered a request
| Call the Show command, add result or error into pending response
ret = tlbct.disp_impl.invoke.bde.method("MyBDEname", "Show", in.xml,
out.xml, res.xml)
if ret = 0 then
if (out.xml <> 0 and xmlGetNumChilds(out.xml) <> 0) then
addXml(xmlFindFirst("BDEidentifier", out.xml, 0))
endif
else
if (res.xml <> 0 and xmlGetNumChilds(res.xml) <> 0) then
addXml(xmlFindFirst("Result", out.xml, 0))
addXml(xmlFindFirst("BDEidentifier", out.xml, 0))
endif
endif
endif

if in.xml <> 0 then
xmlDelete(in.xml)
in.xml = 0
endif
if out.xml <> 0 then
xmlDelete(out.xml)
out.xml = 0
endif
if res.xml <> 0 then
xmlDelete(res.xml)
res.xml = 0
endif


In this way we can add all kind of BDE call-results into a BOD