CAN FTP PORT OF SAP BC BE USED TO SAVE FILES ON THE SERVER

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Hi,

I want to use FTP port to let partners puting files on the server.

The Files are not XML but text.
Can you tell me how I can Make that ???
And How I can lanch the service that should process the file saved ???

Thanks for your answer !!
SSII

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Hi, SSII.

When using the pub.client:ftp service, the Service In variable {content} can be any object at all.

If your partner want to invoke this service (or any other other service), remember that is it accessible via URL because your Integration Server is a Web server.

The URL for all of your services are http://your.domain.com:serverport/invoke/foldername/foldername/Flow name. For example, http://www.domain.com/invoke/tradingproc/inbound/ftp/receiveFile.

Your partners are using the HTTP concept of POST to send messages – they submit using HTML FORM objects so the same rules apply. For more information on posting form data to a webMethods Flow, do a search on this board or at Google. There is a lot of information available to help you.

Your second question was:

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I think what you are asking is “now that I have the document, how can I do something with it?”. If that is true, you have a number of options.

To make sure you get the proper response, though, what sort of processing do you need to do with document? Does the partner require an immediate HTTP 200 reply to gauge success? Is the file marked for batch loading somewhere else in your architecture? In short, what else do we need to know about you business problem?

Thanks and I hope this is a good start for you.