B2B IDMS Control Maintenance Records

The following control maintenance record belongs to the IDMS area in the B2B (Business-to-Business) category.

Archive IDMS-XML Transactions

Indicate whether the system archives IDMS-XML transactions. This control maintenance record is recommended for sites that use the IDMS-XML system very heavily and do not have the system resources (disk space) to store every transaction the system processes.

Assign IDMS-XML Invoices to A/P Branch

Allows users to override the A/P branch used on inbound invoices.  If this is left control maintenance record is left blank, the inbound invoices default to use the G/L branch of the P/O that is being invoiced.

Default IDMS-XML Sales Source

When processing SalesOrderSubmit transactions, the system requires a G/L account to use as the sales source for the new order.  Use this control maintenance record defines which G/L account to use for the sales source of new orders coming into the system through IDMS-XML.

Disable Checking Part #’s, UOM’s, And Qty’s On IDMS-XML Invoices

Allows users to specify if the system should disregard discrepancies in the part numbers, units-of-measure, and quantities when checking the validity of inbound invoices.

IDMS-XML Admin Message User/Group

Allows users to specify an Eclipse user ID or user group that receives messages generated by the IDMS-XML inbound invoicing system.  When the system receives invoices from the vendors, any issues in processing the invoices that the system encounters are sent to the user or group specified by this control maintenance record.

IDMS-XML Default Branch Availability Display

When the system determines product availability to display to a specific customer, it first determines which branch’s inventory to include in the displayed quantity available. This control record allows the user to specify which branches a customer’s availability display includes. Valid choices include: “Ship Branch”, “Home Territory”, “Auth Branches”, and “All Branches”.  The branches included in the first three of these choices are all defined in Customer Maintenance.

IDMS-XML Default Part # Used For Creating A Nonstock Item

When processing SalesOrderSubmit transactions, when a product being requested that the system cannot identify, indicate how the system should handle creating the item:

IDMS-XML Default Sales Order Writer

Allows users to specify a default user ID to be used when completing the Writer field of new sales orders.  If a SalesOrderSubmit transaction comes into the system and does not populate the Writer tag, then the system uses the value from this control maintenance record instead.

IDMS-XML Display Availability For

Select which items for which you want to display availability in your XML responses: Ship Branch, Home Territory, Auth Branches, All Branches.

IDMS-XML Embed Hosted Element Page

New in Release 9.0.4

Indicate if you want the Vantiv-hosted (Element) credit card page embedded in an inline iFrame.

IDMS-XML Exclude DTD Information In Response

Indicate if you want to return the document type definition (DTD) in your responses. For example, set to No, the system eliminates the following line in the transaction response: <!DOCTYPE IDMS-XML SYSTEM "http://www.eclipseinc.com/dtd/IDMS-XML.dtd"> .

IDMS-XML Inbound Sales Orders Always Use Partner Pricing

Indicate if you want inbound sales orders to use always use partner pricing rather than use what is assigned in the Eclipse system.

IDMS-XML Order Image Attachment Profile

New in Release 9.0.1, Updated Release 9.0.4

Select the Document Image Profile you want to use for the order image based on your settings in Document Profile Maintenance.

Note: This control maintenance record is only used when attaching an actual file and not for queries.

As of Release 9.0.4, this control maintenance record serves as a default if no profile is identified in the XML.

IDMS-XML Processing Routines

Enter the routines (programs) used to process the various inbound transaction requests.  

Important: This control maintenance record is populated during installation and we recommend only experienced programmers manage it.

IDMS-XML Session Lifetime In Minutes

Allows users to specify how long IDMS-XML sessions remain valid.  After the specified number of minutes has elapsed in which a particular SessionID has not been used, this SessionID deletes from the system and invalidates the session. This process then requires the user to log in again. If left blank, the default is thirty (30) minutes.

IDMS-XML Ship Vias

Enter the valid ship vias to use when creating new orders through the XML routines.

IDMS-XML Show Product Availability

A base-level, global setting for Web Integration/IDMS-XML that enables the Display Availability by Branch in the ProductInquiry and MassProductInquiry XML responses.

This control maintenance record works in conjunction with the IDMS-XML Display Availability For control maintenance record selections. Both control maintenance records act as the global, site-level settings. The Show Availability for Branches setting in the Customer Maintenance > Remote Order Entry Parameter options overrides this control maintenance record.

IDMS-XML Site-Level Login And Password

Enter the login and password to set at the global level for the company as a whole. This allows all users to login and transactions to be processed without having to have users log in.

IDMS-XML URL To Local xPost Servlet

Allows users to specify the URL to the local xPost servlet.  If the Eclipse xServ and xPost servlets are installed on the system, then this control maintenance record must be populated with a URL that the Eclipse system can use to access the xPost servlet residing on the system’s web server.  

Important: This control maintenance record is populated during installation and we recommend only experienced programmers manage it.

IDMS-XML User Defined Processing Routines

Enter the user-defined routines (programs) used to process the various inbound transaction requests.  

Important: This control maintenance record is populated during installation and we recommend only experienced programmers manage it.

IDMS-XML Valid Order Status

Enter the valid statuses allowed for the IDMS-XML order creation process.

IDMS-XML Web Integration Sales Source Setup

New in Release 9.0.2

See B2B in this documentation.

New IDMS-XML Contact Template

Allows users to specify a contact to use as a template when creating new contacts through the IDMS-XML system. Populate this control maintenance record with an existing “dummy” contact template in the Eclipse system.  All the data fields that Eclipse stores for contacts in its system that are not made available in the Contact tag can be set to default values using this template contact.

New IDMS-XML Customer Template

Allows users to specify a contact to use as a template when creating new customers through the IDMS-XML system. Populate this control maintenance record with an existing “dummy” customer template in the Eclipse system.  All the data fields that Eclipse stores for customers in its system that are not made available in the Entity tag can be set to default values using this template customer.

New IDMS-XML Product Template

Allows users to specify a product to use as a template when creating new products through the IDMS-XML system. Populate this control maintenance record with an existing “dummy” product template in the Eclipse system.  All the data fields that Eclipse stores for customers in its system that are not made available in the Entity tag can be set to default values using this template customer.

Order Statuses Displayed in IDMS-XML

Allows the user to specify the actual text used to describe the various order statuses that the Eclipse system uses to describe orders in the OpenOrderInquiryResponse tag.  For the four available order statuses, any text may be used to describe them.