Description
In Application Link Enabling, youuse this program to distribute material master data to other systems bysending it direct. The sending system can be configured in one of thefollowing ways:

• Industry system

Only materials maintained in the industry material master can be sent.

• Retail system

Only materials maintained in the retail material master can be sent.
Note
It is not yet possible to select materials via the Listingfields.

• Mixed system

Both industry and retail materials can be sent.
By specifying a logical system in the corresponding field, you canrestrict the list of IDoc recipients to the recipient entered.
By selecting the Send material in full indicator, you can alsodistribute the following dependent data for the material (depending onthe type of system) in addition to the actual material master data:

• Industry system

Classification data for the material
Links to documents in the document management system
Singe material variants
To do this, you have to set the Send Material in Full indicatorin Customizing for the material master. Do this by selecting BasicSettings -> Make Global Settings.
Revision levels assigned to the material

• Retail system

Listing conditions
Purchasing info records
Source list records
Purchasing conditions
Sales conditions
BOM allocations

• Mixed system

The indicator applies to both message types (standard and retail). As aresult, either the dependent data for industry materials or thedependent data for retail materials is distributed, depending on thematerial concerned, if this indicator is set.
Note
If inbound processing for the dependent data is set such that thearriving IDocs are posted directly in the targetsystem, errors can occur if the IDoc with the material master data hasnot yet been posted. In this case, the IDocs containing the dependentdata must be reposted, for example, in a specially scheduled job thatperiodically reposts all IDocs not processed correctly.
To prevent this problem, you can schedule one periodic job for postingthe material master data, and another for each dependent object. Byexecuting the job for the material master data long enough in advance ofthe jobs for the dependent data, you can ensure that the IDocscontaining the dependent data are processed only after the materialmaster data has been posted.
If you specify a server group in the corresponding field, the processingof the materials selected is distributed among the application serverscontained in the server group. In the Number of Materials PerProcess field, you can define the number of materials to be processedbefore a new process is started on one of the application servers.

Precondition


• Industry system

You have entered a message type in the Message type (standard)
field.

• Retail system

You have entered a message type in the Message type (Retail)field.

• Mixed system

You have entered a message type in the Message type (standard)
field and in the Message type (Retail) field.