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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 <../configuration/document-view> (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 |