EDI Batches

D365 batches provide the ability to schedule the various processes involved with the EDI module. To reduce the number of batches and simplify the configuration and maintenance a batch control group form has been provided in which the EDI batch groups can be controlled from.

The EDI module process flow is made up of 5 basic steps:

Process	Description
Inbound documents
Import	Files are retrieved and imported into the modules inbound file staging area
Process to staging	Files in the inbound file staging area are read and transformed based on the templates into the EDI document type staging tables
Process to target	The EDI document type staging tables are processed to their target D365 documents and business functions are performed.
Outbound documents
Process to outbound	EDI document type staging table records are processed based on the templates and files are generated into the outbound file staging area
Export	Files in the outbound file staging area are exported.

Each of these steps has a batch job that can be scheduled to automate it. Each of these batch jobs is run per company or multiple companies; and will run over all enabled EDI document types. This has the following advantages:

Different companies can have different batch schedules/frequencies and can be turned on or off separately
Different alert rules can be applied to different companies
Without reconfiguring or even stopping a batch job, individual document types can be enabled or disabled

Users can access the form by navigating to EDI > Setup > Batch control group.

Select New to create a new batch group
Enable the applicable company/s the batch group applies to. The current legal entity is automatically enabled. Users can also use Enable all or Disable all.

For each of the 5 steps above, a separate fast tab will be displayed. For each step:

Option 1: Select Enable for each of the Documents and Connection types you would like to create a batch for, then select Batch > Create Batch
Option 2: Alternatively for all licensed documents, select Batch > Create Batch
Enter the description of the batch in the Caption field
Select the Batch group
If you began setting up batch control with Option 2, select Enable all documents to setup up batch control for all licensed documents
Import and Export batch: Select the applicable File transfer type (connection type) or leave blank if applies to all connection types.
Update Recurrence and Alerts as required
Select Create Batch
Once the batches are created, documents and connection types can be enabled or disabled manually.
To view the batch, select Batch > View batch
Import and Export batch has to the option to create multiple batches on Batch control

Maintain Batch Control

Ongoing maintenance is an important aspect of D365 batches. The batch control form provides a status on the header of each fast tab as well as a link to the underlying batch job in the standard D365 form in which the standard batch logs can be found and updated.

Export batch jobs

Outbound staging records can be created either by:

Send to EDI is set to Yes when posting the D365 source transaction, or
Change tracking is utilised to determine if there are new records for the EDI document type. These documents require the Export batch jobs to create the outbound staging record based on the required recurrence.

The following section will describe the setup required for scenario 2.

Create outbound records manually

Users can access the form by navigating to EDI > Periodic tasks > Export batch jobs.

Create a new Export batch job by:

Select New batch job
Select the Company
Select the EDI document type
Select the Trading partner, where relevant
Set the Recurrence
Select OK