Distributing Business Transaction Data from SAP CRM to an external system using the CRM XIF Adapter
Distributing Business Transaction Data from SAP CRM to an external system using the CRM XIF Adapter Applies to: SAP CRM 7.0 on Web AS 700 (SAP_ABA 700, SAP_BASIS 700, BBPCRM 500) Summary: The interface setup was done through a combination of CRM XIF adapter setup, BADI enhancement (for populating custom fields) and IDoc Technology to distribute the data. This article explains how the interface was configured in SAP CRM step by step. A scenario where we had to interface CRM Business transaction Data to an external system called ISAR, The challenge here was to interface SAP CRM and ISAR with/without a powerful middleware such as SAP XI. For transferring data from SAP CRM, we had to introduce custom structures with additional fields as the standard IDoc in CRM did not contain all the data we needed. So BADI enhancements had to be implemented to populate these custom structures. I am aware that there is standard documentation on CRM XIF function module...