Uploading EDIFACT Interchange Files

When you upload EDIFACT files, you are uploading them from your hard drive or a floppy disk to the Horizon database. You can upload any EDIFACT interchange file; however, Horizon can process only the order response and invoice messages in the interchange file at this time.

If you have not already done so, save the EDIFACT interchange file to your hard drive or to a floppy disk so you can find it when you upload the file. (You save the file by detaching it from an e-mail message or by downloading it from a web or ftp site. For more information, see the user documentation that comes with these tools.)

Effects

Uploads the EDIFACT interchange files to your Horizon database.

To upload EDIFACT interchange files

1 Start the Upload EDIFACT Files process.

The default location of this process is the Acquisitions folder on the navigation bar.

Horizon displays the Upload EDIFACT Files window:

2 Click Files.

Horizon displays a window that lets you search on your hard drive for EDIFACT files.

3 Search for the EDIFACT file or files you have saved to your hard drive or a floppy disk and that you want to upload.

To highlight multiple files in a row, hold down SHIFT and click on each file you want. To highlight multiple files that are not adjacent to each other, hold down CTRL and click on each file you want.

4 Click Open.

Horizon lists the files you choose in the Upload EDIFACT Files window.

Note: Make sure every file you want to upload is displayed in this window. Horizon uploads all files displayed.

5 Do one of these options:

To upload the displayed files now

To upload the displayed files later

1 Click Upload.
1 Enter the time in the Start Time field.
2 Choose either AM or PM.
3 Enter the date in the Start Date field.
4 Click Upload.

When Horizon uploads the files, it displays a status bar so you can see the progress of the upload. The upload is complete when the Close button becomes available or active.

If there are any problems with the upload, Horizon displays messages under the status bar describing the errors. (You can view these errors in the edifact_exception view using the Table Editor.)

6 If you want to stop the upload process for any reason, click Abort on the Upload EDIFACT Files in Process window; otherwise, continue with Processing EDIFACT Invoice Messages.

You can stop the upload at any time (even in sleep mode or after the upload process has started). Horizon updates the appropriate views only after a file is uploaded successfully. Therefore, you can stop an upload while Horizon is uploading a file and the file’s information will not be in your database, along with the files that would have been uploaded after the file you stopped.

You can now process the messages for each file you have uploaded.

 


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