Set up MDM messages with wizard

In MDM studio, you can use the Create MDM message wizard to create the messages for an internal staging master data setup. With an internal staging master data setup, you send data from your source company to a staging journal. The target company triggers the message to send the data from the staging journal to the target company.

With the wizard, you create the:

Documents that are used in the MDM messages.
MDM message to send data from the source company to the staging journal (data to staging message).
MDM message to send data from the staging journal to the target company (data from staging message).

Standard procedure

1.	Click Master data management - Integration design.
2.	In the Project field, enter or select the desired MDM project.
3.	Click Projects.
4.	On the Action Pane, on the Design tab, in the Messages group, click Create MDM message.
5.	Sub-task: Select document fields.
5.1	Click Select fields.
5.2	Open the page from which you want to select fields for the document.
5.3	On the field picker dialog, click Select fields.
5.4	On the shown page, select the fields to be added to the document.
	For each desired field, click the + sign.
5.5	Click Done.
	Note: You can open another page from which to select fields.
5.6	Review the selected fields. You can delete the not desired fields.
	Click Submit.
5.7	Click Next.
6.	Sub-task: Define document information.
6.1	Select Yes in the Create staging field.
6.2	Define the settings for the source document of the 'data to staging' message. To do so, fill in the fields in the Source document group.
	In the Document field, type the unique name for the 'data to staging' source document.
6.3	In the Application field, enter or select the desired application for the 'data to staging' source document.
	Note: Make sure, the application exists before you start the wizard.
6.4	Define the settings for the target document of the 'data from staging' message. To do so, fill in the fields in the Staging target document group.
	In the Document field, type the unique name for the target document of the 'data from staging' message.
6.5	In the Application field, enter or select the desired application for the target document of the 'data from staging' message.
	Note: Make sure, the application exists before you start the wizard.
6.6	Define the number sequence that is used to create the staging journal IDs.
	In the Number sequence field, enter or select a value.
6.7	For the 'data from staging' message, you can use the staging target document as staging source document as well.
	Select Yes in the Reuse staging target document field.
	Note: If you select No, you can fill in the fields in the Staging source document group. If you do not fill in the staging source document fields, on finishing the wizard, only the staging target document is created. So, no 'data from staging' message is created.
6.8	For the 'data to staging' message, you can use the source document as target document as well.
	Select Yes in the Reuse source document field.
	Note: If you select No, you can fill in the fields in the Target document group. If you do not fill in the fields in the Target document group, on finishing the wizard, only the source document is created. So, no 'data to staging' message is created.
6.9	Click Next.
7.	Sub-task: Define message information.
7.1	Define the settings of the 'data to staging' message. To do so, fill in the fields in the Message group.
	In the Message field, type the unique name for the 'data to staging' message.
	Note: If you do not fill in the fields in the Message group, on finishing the wizard, only the defined documents are created. So, no 'data to staging' message is created.
7.2	In the Source connector field, enter or select the desired connector for the 'data to staging' message.
	Note: Make sure, the source connector exists before you start the wizard.
7.3	In the Target connector field, enter or select the desired connector for the 'data to staging' message.
	Note: Make sure, the target connector exists before you start the wizard.
7.4	Define the settings of the 'data from staging' message. To do so, fill in the fields in the Staging message group.
	In the Message field, type the unique name for the 'Data from staging' message.
	Note: If you do not fill in the fields in the Staging message group, on finishing the wizard, only the defined documents are created. So, no 'data from staging' message is created.
7.5	In the Source connector field, enter or select the desired connector for the 'data from staging' message.
	Note: Make sure, the source connector exists before you start the wizard.
7.6	In the Target connector field, enter or select the desired connector for the 'data from staging' message.
	Note: Make sure, the target connector exists before you start the wizard.
8.	Click Finish.
	Note: When you have clicked finished, the Message page is opened showing the created 'data to staging' message. If no message is created, the Document page is opened showing the 'data to staging' source document.