6.2.4. Document types

Babelway's document module allows you to build a business-level view of the messages being processed.

In Babelway, messages typically represent the technical communication between two IT systems. To translate this technical traffic into meaningful business insights, you can set up our document module. This involves:

1. Configuring a document type comprising a set of meaningful fields.
2. Extracting data into those fields. Each set of data is going to be called a document.
3. These documents are then displayed in a list tied to your document type in the "Monitor" section of your environment.

You can use this set-up to build lists of documents such as invoices, or credit notes, or purchase orders etc. For example, an "invoice" document type could include the following fields:

• a total [Number],

• a supplier account number [IBAN account],

• an invoice number [String],

• status [String (choice within a list of values)],

• an invoice date [Date & time].

An individual document of type "invoice" could then have the values

• $135.00,

• "AT483200000012345864",

• "INV862",

• "paid",

• 01/12/24.

An invoices menu would then appear in your monitoring section listing the extracted data:

This chapter will explain how to set up the document types, adapt their display, and begin extracting document data. The documentation concerning the resulting view can be found here.

1. Configuration Settings
2. Document Fields
3. Creating and Updating a Document
4. Documents and Deployments