attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
Adnan Alawi
adnan_hashim123 at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 18 01:17:55 EST 2004
Well Sergey,
Thanks for reply. I have future requirment where I need to force the
use to send an attachement and have to check that the attachment is
not empty.
I was wondering what is the best way to do this ?
Thanks
Adnan
>From: Sergey Breslavets <sergey.breslavets at epstechnology.com>
>Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
>Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:15:01 -0600
>
>Adnan,
>
>this is supposed to be performed by background step, which would create and
>send attachment automatically - no user is involved.
>
>tell me more about your scenario - i might be able to advise something.
>
>regards,
>Sergey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adnan Alawi [mailto:adnan_hashim123 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Sat 1/17/2004 3:15 AM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
>
>
>
> Hiiiiiii,
> I have a question on attachments, how do u make attachments
> OBLIGATORY ? or check that the user has attached a something ?
>
> Regards
> Adnan
>
>
> >From: Sergey Breslavets <sergey.breslavets at epstechnology.com>
> >Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> >To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
> >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:20:19 -0600
> >
> >Hi Monica,
> >
> >Simplest way: you can substitute sendmail step with you own background
> >task, where you would generate plain text report and send it either as
> >attachment of as body text using one of the sapoffice sendmail
> >functions.
> >
> >To make it look nicer you can use Sapscript instead (generate sapscript
> >report and pass it as binary content). I used that technique to
> >generate and send scanned image of a vendor invoice as an email
> >attachment.
> >
> >I'll try to find some code examples and send to you if you want.
> >
> >There is also a step type in 4.6 you can use in the workflow - Generate
> >Document from a template. You can create doc template (e.g. using MS
> >Word) and insert a placeholders in the text which would at generation
> >time be substituted with values from corresponding container elements.
> >I'm not sure if it'll work in case of tabular data though..
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Sergey..
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: M Doe [mailto:monica_sap at hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:52 PM
> >To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
> >
> >Hi Sergery,
> >
> >Please explain how.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Monica
> >
> >
> > >From: Sergey Breslavets <sergey.breslavets at epstechnology.com>
> > >Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> > >To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > >Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
> > >Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:59:25 -0600
> > >
> > >Hi Monica,
> > >
> > >You can generate a document (expense report) within the workflow and
> > >send it as attachment...
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Sergey..
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: M Doe [mailto:monica_sap at hotmail.com]
> > >Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:29 PM
> > >To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > >Subject: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
> > >
> > >Hello all,
> > >
> > >Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays!
> > >
> > >I have a question..I have a workflow that is sending an email to the
> > >manager
> > >telling the manager to go log in to R/3 to approve or reject. The
> > >client
> > >now also is
> > >requesting that with this email I send an attachment of the expense
> > >statement of the employee so they can preview the details with the
> > >email.
> > >
> > >I am able to send this statement into the R/3 inbox since there is a
> > >display
> > >method behind this workitem but how do I attach it to the email.
> > >
> > >I am using " selfitem sendtaskdescription" in this workflow to send the
> > >email and when I try to attach this form to the attachments in binding
> >I
> > >get
> > >an error stating "Reference types 'D' and 'O' are not compatible "
> > >because
> > >the expense form is of "object" type which apparently I cannot attach.
> > >
> > >Please advise on how to handle this.
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Monica
> > >
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