An outbound operation typically begins when a user performs an action in HxGN EAM that requires a data exchange with another ION-enabled application. A BOD XML message is generated by HxGN EAM and placed in an area designated as the HxGN EAM message outbox. At scheduled intervals, ION connects to the outbox and retrieves the BODs from it.
In ION, you create application connection points, which define the connections between ION and an application that can send and receive BODs. ION Connect routes BODs according to the document flows between HxGN EAM and other ION-enabled applications.
The document flows between HxGN EAM and other applications represent the business relationship between the databases. You use the ION Document Flow Modeler page to define these document flows.
If a document flow is defined from HxGN EAM to another application for a particular BOD, then at specified intervals, ION places the outbound BOD from HxGN EAM in the other application’s designated message inbox. Applications are responsible for validating and incorporating the data in inbound BODs according to their rules.
If a flow is defined from another application to HxGN EAM, ION retrieves BODs from the sending application’s message outbox and delivers them to the HxGN EAM message inbox for processing. HxGN EAM retrieves, validates, and processes the BODs.