# Edifact

Frends offers seamless integration with [Edifact](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIFACT), enabling you to effortlessly connect and automate data flows that require reading and manipulating Edifact documents.

Frends has tasks for performing all core Edifact operations.

By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize Edifact integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends offers a wide range of tasks that facilitate integrations to a variety of systems and protocols.

## Use cases

Below you will find typical use cases for Edifact integrations and how they are implemented in Frends.

### Parse Edifact and save data to SQL Server

By using the file trigger and the [`Edifact ConvertToJson`](/tasks/tasks/edifact/converttojson.md) task we can create an integration that receives incoming Edifact messages, validates them and saves to a database.

<figure><img src="/files/N2NVe4mSe1bEhNEyAlHg" alt=""><figcaption><p>Parse Edifacts</p></figcaption></figure>

### Create Edifact documents from predefined templates

By using the [`Edifact ConvertToJson`](/tasks/tasks/edifact/converttojson.md) and [`Edifact CreateFromJson`](/tasks/tasks/edifact/createfromjson.md) tasks we can create an integration that can create a new Edifact document from an existing template.

<figure><img src="/files/p8IE7IkgZN8wHvB1wghY" alt=""><figcaption><p>Create from template</p></figcaption></figure>


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