Scanning Documents into SAP
Have you looked into IXOS? It is fully integrated with the SAP environment, and it is what we use here to scan in financial documents that are related to our SAP applications.

View Answer   |  August 17, 2004  10:03 AM
ERP, IT architecture, SAP

Email Notification on IDOC Posting Error
Hi! Unfortunately I don’t have SAP available to check, but as far as I remember, when posting iDocs there is possibility to raise the WF event that will take care of automated processing, including e-mailing and other error processing. For most of iDocs, there are already standard WF scenarios defined, you can find them either [...]

View Answer   |  August 17, 2004  5:21 AM
ABAP

SAP Certification Resources
Hi there, You could try www.sap.com or even search through SAP community link. In their main site, the location of centres providing SAP training is stated. As for books, you can try amazon.com which has good books on SAP for beginners to NetWeaver. Good Luck Bavani

View Answer   |  August 12, 2004  11:40 PM
SAP

CALL TRANSACTION alternatives
Hi, Since MB51 is a report transaction you can use: SUBMIT RM07DOCS myvariant_to_pass_parameters. passing parameters with SUBMIT: - USING SELECTION SET nn - WITH p (all options) - WITH SELECTION TAB tab - WITH FREE SELECTIONS xxx Hope this can help, greetings, Tom

View Answer   |  August 12, 2004  12:03 PM
ABAP

differences
Other than the fact that AT is an event I don’t know of any differences in the way the data is processed

View Answer   |  August 12, 2004  11:39 AM
R/3

Opportunities are going from CRM Mobile to CRM online but not vice versa, have any suggestions
The two are not mutually exclusive: one can have CRM on-line on a mobile. However, I see several reasons why CRM mobile hasn’t been the success its inventors dreamt of (specially compared to CRM on-line on a lap/desktop): small screens, unhandy keyboards, connection is not 100% guaranteed and expensive mobile phones. Add to that the [...]

View Answer   |  August 10, 2004  12:34 AM
CRM, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Sales force automation applications, SAP, Wireless

Downloading data from SAP tables
My recommendation would be an ETL tool of which there are 3 or 4 that have good interfaces to SAP.

View Answer   |  August 4, 2004  12:00 PM
SAP, Storage

VENDOR MASTER DATA – EMAIL ADDRESSES
Hi, I guess you’re dealing with the central address admin. environment. If yes, then: 1. get the address-key from master data table (LFA1-ADRNR) 2. use the address-key in order to access adress data in the tables for central address admin. (ADR*) (ADR6 = table with SMTP data) use: ADR6-SMTP_ADDR Regards, Tom

View Answer   |  July 28, 2004  9:13 AM
ABAP

Calling a URL from ABAP/4
You can try to use CALL FUNCTION ‘PRGN_GENER_EXECUTE_URL’ in your Abap program to call the URL in your browser. You can add this URL to your favorites menu folder under SAP EASY ACCESS menu tree.

View Answer   |  July 21, 2004  11:57 AM
R/3, SAP

data warehousing and dimensional modelling
You are raising the perennial question on what model is best. There is unfortunately no clear cut global answer to that: it will depend on the particular needs of your data environment (hard- and software) and not the least the reporting needs that the users express. Based on those needs you can start to architect [...]

View Answer   |  July 19, 2004  10:27 AM
Business Objects, Cognos, Customer relationship management applications, Data analysis, Data mining/analysis, Data warehousing applications, Database Management Systems, Development, Ecommerce applications, ERP, Hardware, Informatica, Lifecycle development, Software Quality Assurance

Connecting to External DB from SAP BW
Hi mpm966, Unfortunately you cannot retrieve lowercase data to BW. You have to create DB views on source DB to convert the data to uppercase. Check SAP note #512739 Hope this helps Thule

View Answer   |  June 6, 2004  6:50 AM
Oracle, SAP

Email Display
Take a look at FM SO_OBJECT_READ, within in it look at the following code. Internal table OBJCONT will get filled with the message text after the call to Form DATA_SELECT. This might get you headed in the right direction…. if filter-nocont is initial. Read content of the object if desired perform data_select(sapfsso1) tables objhead objcont [...]

View Answer   |  June 4, 2004  9:37 AM
ABAP, mySAP CRM, R/3, SAP

SAP BW
Here’s some answers and personal thoughts. -Customising BW – custom cubes and loaders : Custom cubes are very easy to create and almost always needed for tailored business needs. We used the standard LIS loaders with some modifications for master data. -Administration workload post go live If you get the structures up right, almost no [...]

View Answer   |  June 4, 2004  9:05 AM
SAP

Info Records distributio
Could you tell which version of SAP did you have?

View Answer   |  May 24, 2004  12:49 PM
R/3

Contracts in SAP
Probably but I don’t know how other than perhaps to look in workflow. We have used the list display of purchasing documents by document number report and created a variant to report agreements expiring in the next 90 days which someone in purchasing runs about once a month. It uses the dynamic selections button to [...]

View Answer   |  May 24, 2004  12:33 PM
R/3

CRM Email Handling Workflow
Hi All, I opened an OSS note and the reply back was to not use CICSUPRT but CICSUPRT2 so I changed my stuff to use that and then I changed the event linkage to use the reciever function module SWW_WI_CREATE_VIA_EVENT and that got this kicked off just fine. Thanks, Anna

View Answer   |  May 24, 2004  10:55 AM
SAP

SAP Upgrade Providers
I guess youre asking for too big a jump!! …3.1i to 4.7 enterprise. I feel my reaction “echoing” by the non response to your query. No offence intended though. Regards

View Answer   |  May 24, 2004  10:53 AM
R/3

Foreign Currency Spend
Hi, Can you try ME80FN General Evaluations and restrict the selection by using dynamic selections. Regards

View Answer   |  May 22, 2004  10:45 AM
SAP

Online store
We use ITS but not for an online store. People external to our manufacturing locations use it to access the system (distributors, dealers, LLP, exporter, etc.)

View Answer   |  May 20, 2004  9:12 PM
SAP

repetitive manufacturing and capacity planning
We are using repetitive for all of our manufacturing plants but not MF50.

View Answer   |  May 20, 2004  9:56 AM
MySAP, R/3