After launching BICMD for the first time, you can either choose to use the default workspacelocated in <BICMD Root>/User/bicmd or you can create a new workspace. When creating a new workspace you can choose the path. Select the new workspace name from the dropdown list and click OK. A fresh version of BICMD will only contain the Global_Procedures tree. In order to perform any mapping work, you will have to create projects. Projects are used to house and organize message structures and mappings. You can create projects by right-clicking anywhere in the project explorer window and selecting New-Project. Give the new project a name and a description (optional). Click OK. By default, any newly created project will contain trees for each message standard type supported by BICMD. The more commonly used formats are ANSI_X12, EDIFACT, INHOUSE (fixed length flat files), CSV, XML, and SQL. To import message structures. . Message structures will either be single XML files in a proprietary BICMD format. right-click anywhere in the project and select import. or zip files that contain the XML and a folder containing element codelists like the example above. .The import results in a new message structure being displayed in the ANSI_X12 message structure tree. The default naming convention for ANSI structures in <message>_<version>. The default naming convention is <Idoc type>_<Idoc release>_<language code>. Idoc message structures are single XML files with no codelists. This transport has to be installed in the development SAP environment. .You can also import Idoc message structures which are generated from SAP using the Seeburger transport transaction /n/seeag/idocstruct. .It is not uncommon for an autocorrection dialogue to open as a result of importing Idoc message structure. Choosing Cancel will result in the message structure not being imported. Just choose Commit autocorrection to proceed. .Idoc message structures will appear in the INHOUSE message structure tree. Once you have the appropriate message structures imported for source and destination. Right-click on the Mapping tree and choose New-Mapping. you are now ready to create a new mapping. . .Choose the source and destination message structures from the dropdown lists. This will result in a default map naming convention of <source message type>_<source message name>_to_<destination message type>_<destination message name>. You can optionally fill out Company.You can alter the default mapping name or just add a prefix or suffix to indicate the trading partner the mapping is intended for. and User fields as well. Leave the Programming language option as BIC_BASIC_V2. Click OK. . Department. . Note that the source and destination message structures are indicated under the map name.The result will be a new map under the Mapping tree of the project. You are now able to perform mapping instructions in the new map and test the map using the self-contained BICMD test environment to compile and run sample data through for conversion tests. right-click anywhere in the project explorer window and choose Repository-Create repository connection to establish a connection to the BIS server mapping repository.Once you are ready to load your mapping to the BIS server. . leaving the port and logical system values as the defaults (10000 and 000 respectively) and click OK.Type the hostname or IP address of the BIS server. Type in your BIS username and password and click OK. . Click OK. You will receive a message like the one above if you entered in the server information correctly and the BIS server is running and available. . Right-click on your project name and choose RepositoryExport to Repository.After establishing the server repository connection. you can now export the contents of your project to the server. . Click New folder to create a new repository project on the server.Choose your repository connection from the dropdown list and click Browse. Select the new project folder name and click OK. .Type in the name of the new project folder and click OK. Type in a mandatory comment and click OK. . . Note that you cannot export mappings without their dependent message structures.Choose the BICMD project objects that you want to export to the server and click OK. the names of your BICMD project and any items that you exported will be red and will have a repository version indicated to the right in parentheses.Once the export is complete. The red color indicates that the objects are in read-only mode. . BICMD will offer to check out the associated message structures as well. In the case of a map check out.In order to gain exclusive write access on repository objects. just click OK without selecting them. . you have to check them out by right-clicking on the object and choosing Repository-Check Out. It is only necessary to check the message structures out if you intend to alter them. Otherwise. Checked-out objects will be green in color to indicate write access. Click OK. . but only if the object is not already checked out by someone else.You will receive a success message like the one above. . make changes and save those changes.If you open a checked-out object. the font of the object name will appear in italics. check the object back in by right-clicking on the object and selecting Repository-Check In. Enter a mandatory check in comment and click OK.After you have made all of the changes you need to make. . A dialogue like the one above will indicate that the object was successfully checked in and that a new version number was assigned. . The object will once again appear in red and will display a new version number in parentheses. . you must activate (compile) the mapping source code by right-clicking on the map and choosing Repository-Activate.In order for a mapping to be accessible in the BIS converter runtime environment. enter a mandatory activation comment and click OK. .Confirm that the map name is selected. . Click OK.You will receive the dialogue above if the activation is successful. From the file menu choose New.Next go to the BIS server frontend and select Mapping Management under the Converter tree of the Configuration tab. . .Select the map from the available activated mappings in the repository folder and click deploy. Enter a mandatory deploy comment and click Continue. Your mapping will then appear in the mapping management and is ready to be used in the BIS process solution. . Once Projects and maps are loaded to the server repository. additional BICMD clients can download the objects from the server by creating a repository connection and then right-click anywhere in the project explorer window and choose Repository-Import from repository. Choose your server connection from the dropdown list and click Browse. . Choose the repository project you wish to import and click OK. Click New. Note that in this example. so an import into that project would fail. Type a new project name to link with the server project and click OK. . the TEST project in BICMD is already linked to the server and all objects are read only.Click OK You can either choose an existing BICMD project to import into or you can create a new project. Click OK. . The new project will be created and linked with the server project.