GEDI Conversion Lists

"A 'GEDI Conversion Document', is a table used for converting specific values"

GEDI Conversion Lists

Introduction

In the 'GEDI Conversion List' page view in Business Central you will find 'GEDI Conversion Documents'. A 'GEDI Conversion Document', or short 'GEDI Conversion', is a table were you can input values to be converted and used in 'GEDI Mappings' or in Code Units.

This means that code identifiers inside Business Central can be different from the code identifiers in the EDI.

Conversion Concepts

In general you can divide 'GEDI Conversions' into some different concepts;

• Identifier: Convert internal Business Central identifiers to or from standard EDI codes used by the 'CIP translators'.

  For example, maybe in Business Central a unit of measure is "BX" but the corresponding EDI standard code is "BOX". Then a 'GEDI Conversion' is used to convert the values.

• Add Info: Can be used to add information that has no field in Business Central.

  For example, A customer has a fixed invoice reference they require in EDI. Then a 'GEDI Conversion' could be used to convert the customer nr into the fixed invoice reference and include in the EDI message.

• Logical: Can be used to convert fields in Business Central to a integer. The integer can then be used in 'GEDI Mapping' rules or in the 'CIP Translator' to flag certain scenarios.

  For example, some order rows are articles and some are not. If we convert ARTICLES to 1, RESOURCES to 0 and G/L ACCOUNTS to 0; then we can tell the 'CIP Translator' that some rows are item related (1) and some rows are are not (0).