Business Integration Solutions Documentation
About: Documents
A document is a definition of information that is sent from or received by Microsoft Dynamics BC.
Usage
Use a document to describe the following information structure with names, data types and other descriptors:
- An external information structure, such as an external XML document or an API readable format
- An internal Microsoft Dynamics BC table and field structure.
Concept
If you export data from Microsoft Dynamics BC database, an internal document defines which data is exported.
An internal document is a representation of Microsoft Dynamics BC table structure which includes tables, fields and relationships. An internal document defines the structure in which the Microsoft BC data must be exported.
If you import data into Microsoft Dynamics BC database, an external document indicates how the external data is delivered in terms of nodes, hierarchy and data types and an internal document defines how this external data must be processed into Microsoft Dynamics BC database.
The internal and external documents can be linked by using a Mapper activity.