Novell Groupwise e-mail integration

[Abigail A Dywan]

We have just done it on my project in Birmingham...  when you go through
SAP's workflow academy, they tell you that GroupWise is MAPI-compliant.  In
a way, that's true, and in a way, it isn't.
 
GroupWise requires a middleware called TOPCALL to make it MAPI-compliant.
If your client is anything like mine and is thinking of upgrading to
Outlook or Notes, it's probably not a good idea to make the purchase.
 
Your other option is to use the standard program RSWUWFML and set it up on
a batch schedule to send notifications to users email addresses that they
have new work items.  All they will get in GroupWise is an email - not a
work item.  They will have to actually log in to SAP and go into their
Business Workplace to execute their items.  Any users wanting to have this
automatic notification in GroupWise will need to have automatic forwarding
set up (transaction SO36).  This is probably your better bet.
 
Hope that helps -
Abby  :)
 
 
 
                      Frank Miller
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Has anyone integrated Novell Groupwise with Workflow? We here at the
Unicity project in Cape Town have a requirement to do this, but are not
sure how to go about it, how much work is involved etc. I have heard
that integration with Microsoft Outlook, for example, is
straightforward.
 
I did get the OSS note no. 131795 : E-mail notification of Workflow
items, which includes a large amount of ABAP code, but this seems to be
a generic 'fix'.
 
We would greatly appreciate any help/comment on this!
 
Regards,
Frank Eriksen-Miller