Glossary of Terms

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alt	Used for chained translations.
botskey	Used for business document number, eg order number, invoice number. Used to set up document views (view business documents instead of edi-files).
channel type	Type of communication used for sending/receiving files like ftp, smtp, file I/O.
chained translation	A chained translations translate one incoming format to multiple outgoing formats.
editype	Type of edi-file like x12, edifact, tradacoms, xml, csv, fixed record files.
mapping script	A python script containing instructions how to get data from incoming edi-message and put it in the outgoing edi-message.
messagetype	eg 850 (an x12 order), ORDERSD96AUN (edifact order) or your inhouse xml-orders. A messagetype is defined in a grammar
route	a workflow for edi-files
translation	convert a message of a certain editype, messagetype to another editype, messagetype using a mapping script.
translation rule	determines what translations are done for incoming files. In bots-monitor->Configuration->Translations