workitem/form from R/3 to Outlook and back to R/3

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Michael,
This is what SAPFORMS does.
If you want to do workflow offline then you have to have some sort of
program
to process it and send it to R/3 - that's why you need SAPFORMS.  SAPFORMS
is what you are describing.   SAPFORMS is asynchronous in that you can fill
in the
data offline and then send it to R/3 later. Even though FORM.PROCESS says
synchronous
that only applies to the actual execution of the task (which is just the
"send to
R/3 bit").
 
You can get away without SAPMAPI, e.g. just use SMTP, but it's harder to
configure.
 
However if it's installing stuff on the PC that is a problem, then the
option is to use web forms (FORM.HTMLPROCESS) where you process the workitem
 
through a web browser, connecting to R/3 using a web server and Internet
Transaction
Server.  This is a synchronous communication so your web server/ITS and R/3
system
have to be up to talk to.  However you don't have to put anything but a web
browser
on the user's PC.
 
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
SAP Australia
Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
Tel: +61 412 390 267
Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kemmler [mailto:Michael.Kemmler at HypoVereinsbank.de]
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2001 6:35 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: workitem/form from R/3 to Outlook and back to R/3
 
 
Hi,
 
is it also possible to send a workitem/form via email from R/3 to a
Outlook-Client, without
RFC connection to R/3 ? I read about a asynchrone email communication, but i
 
found only the synchrone one with the object FORM.PROCESS.
 
I looking for a easy way to send a form/workitem from R/3 to Outlook, there
the user take an input in the form and send it back to R/3. Is this possible
without SAP-Mapi, SAPForms installed on the client or a RFC-connection,
only with email and a form ?
 
 
 
thanks for your help
 
Michael Kemmler