SAP XI Tutorial

1. The first link is a brief, but very good overview of process integration and Exchange Infrastructure. It starts by explaining the old method of integration, and what XI can do to make complex integration environments more manageable and easier to develop.

XI Overview

2. The “ALE Quick Start Guide”. While this doesn’t necessarily directly relate to XI, I felt like it was important to list here as a prerequisite. This guide has a lot of great information, and a walk through of setting up an ALE scenario.

ALE Quick Start Guide

3. “A Beginners Guide to SAP XI Settings, Part I” is a paper written by members of the SDN which is very helpful in doing several things. First, it explains the multiple components of Exchange Infrastructure. Second, it explains some of the basic configurations for XI that need to be set in place in order to start developing interfaces. And it also begins to walk through an interface scenario.

A Beginners Guide to SAP XI Settings, Part I

4. “A Beginners Guide to SAP XI Settings, Part II” is the obvious follow up to the first half of this guide. It’s simply a continuation.

A Beginners Guide to SAP XI Settings, Part II

5. This next link is an excellent web page that provides a checklist for XI implementation methodology. Simply put, when developing an interface, this page is a great checklist to keep you on track. It’s worth reading over before reading some of the other links in this list of resources.

XI Implementation Methodology Worksheet

6. This is another document written by some SDN members. It expects the basics of XI to be understood, which at this point they should be, and explains an example File to IDoc scenario, including some good tips and techniques for mapping in XI.

IDoc Packing and Mapping Techniques

7. “SAP Exchange Infrastructure 3.0: Demo Examples” is an official SAP document that starts by explaining some configurations for XI (which can probably be skipped, but may be a good refresher) and finishes by going into great detail dissecting the example scenarios that are included with XI by default upon install. This is very helpful, because it walks through the examples in great detail.

SAP Exchange Infrastructure 3.0: Demo Examples"

8. This is a link to the SAP XI knowledge warehouse provided by SAP. It can be a bit frustrating for someone with no knowledge of XI, but at this point one should be able to comfortably navigate through the pages on this website and find the information they are looking for in particular. I would suggest reading all of the pages that are listed in the “overview -> basics” section, as well as the “overview -> examples -> demo examples” section to clear up any foggy areas.

SAP XI Knowledge Warehouse


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