TranslationperPartner - skilchen/bots GitHub Wiki

Partner specific translation

Explain by example

You receive edifact ORDERSD96AUNEAN008 from several partners. Partner 'retailer-abroad' fills the orders in a different way; the difference is so big that it is better to have a separate mapping script.

Configure this like:

• one grammar for incoming edifact ORDERSD96AUNEAN008 message. (It is a standard message, isn't it?)
• one grammar for the inhouse import format. (We definitely want one import for all orders!)
• note that the incoming edifact grammar uses QUERIES to determine the from-partner and to-partner before the translation.
• make the 2 mapping scripts:
  • mapping script 'ordersedi2inhouse_for_retailerabroad.py' (specific for partner 'retailer-abroad').
  • mapping script 'fixed-myinhouseorder' (for all other retailers).
• add 'retailer-abroad' to partners (via bots-monitor->Configuration->Partners & groups).
• Use 2 translations rules:
  • edifact-ORDERSD96AUNEAN008 to fixed-myinhouseorder using mapping script ordersedi2inhouse.py
  • edifact-ORDERSD96AUNEAN008 to fixed-myinhouseorder using mapping script ordersedi2inhouse_for_retailerabroad.py for from-partner 'retailer-abroad'

Often there are lots of similarities between the mappings - the 'many similar yet different mappings' problems. This can be handled in bots in a nice way.

Plugin

Plugin 'demo_partnerdependent' at the bots sourceforge site demonstrates partner specific translations.