Today Idocs are used in most sap applications for transfer of message as information from sap system to other systems and vice versa. Though lot of documentation is available on Idocs it is difficult for a functional consultant to understand such documents due to their technical nature. While a functional consultant is not expected to know the Idoc concepts in its entirety, an effort has been made to capture the minimum necessary information that one needs to be aware of in order to handle project or support issues on Idocs.
overview
Idoc is an sap object that carries data of a business transaction from one system to another in the form of electronic message. Idoc is an acronym for Intermediate document. The purpose of an IDoc is to transfer data or information from sap to other systems and vice versa. The transfer from sap to non sap system is done via electronic data interchange subsystems whereas for transfer between two sap systems, ale is used.
what is idoc in sap
why we need to genrate idoc
Advantages of idoc
Business process for idoc
Communication technology for idoc
types of data, message type, idoc type, what is the link and why
idoc display intro
idoc structure
How to get mapping fields of idoc type or basic type
How to open fields of idoc or segment fields display
real time scenario 1 sending po information to target system practical cycle
sample idoc issues and foreground process or restricted processing in support
real time scenario 2 sending po information to create sales order cycle
real time scenario 3 sales order acknowledgement for customer or buyer automatic idoc creation process
idoc reprocessing tools and discussion how to handle support issues brief
Idoc workflow enable or disable and what is express items
Bonus topic: workflow understanding for functional consultants
sample support ticket: idoc practical in support analysis1
scenario 4 shipping notification or delivery notification
scenario 5 invoice generation using idoc
idoc search we09 learning real time
just for additional knowledge: additional learning of idoc change pointers ( only theory its handled by tech)