Scenario – Sorting before Process using one sort key

The figure below illustrates a simple scenario, where $customerNumber is used as sort key.

Figure 69

Sort before Process using $customerNumber as sort key.

 

1	The StreamServer application receives the input job.
2	The documents are sorted using $customerNumber as sort key:
3	All customer 01 documents are delivered before the customer 02 documents.

In this scenario, the documents are not delivered in the same order.

Customer	Document order
01	1 Software invoice 2 Hardware invoice
02	1 Hardware invoice 2 Software invoice

Output mode Document

In this scenario, you can use $customerNumber as Document trigger to group hardware and software invoices per customer. The documents are not in the same order in all Documents. This is corrected in Scenario – Sorting before Process using multiple sort keys.

Figure 70

Creating Documents using $customerNumber as sort key and Document trigger.