SAP Object attachment in Decision workitem Email in outlook

[Dart, Jocelyn]

Hi Ashish,
Forget about Generic Object Services for what you want to do - that just gives another way of sending
a mail with an object attachment when starting from SAPGUI.  So it is effectively going from the
other direction (SAP out). It's not doing any more than creating a mail with an attachment of 'OBJ'.
That doesn't help you - firstly OBJ attachments need SAPGUI to be seen and secondly they are intended
for display of data not for execution of work items.
 
What you want to do sounds exactly like the SAPFORMS approach.
 
If you have a SAPMAPI link to your Outlook then sending an ordinary work item
will result in a link back to SAPGUI when executing the work item.
 
Another way if you are using server level SAPMAPI is to create a special form using SAPFORMS for Outlook, i.e.
create a VB program that executes the work item.
 
However if you don't have SAPMAPI or don't want to put it on for some reason
you could take the SAPFORMS for HTML approach and include a hyperlink in your mail
that starts up a web session that then executes the work item.
 
I recall that someone else also mentioned including a SAP Shortcut as a hyperlink
in an email so that may also be a possibility.
 
Anyway it's worth reading the SAP Library help on the use of SAPFORMS.
Regards,
        Jocelyn Dart
Consultant (SRM, EBP, Workflow)
and co-author of the book
"Practical Workflow for SAP"
SAP Australia
email: jocelyn.dart at sap.com
phone: +61 412 390 267
fax:   +61 2 9935 4880
 
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Verma Ashish (TTL_LKO) [mailto:ashish at telco.co.in]
Sent: Monday, 23 December 2002 2:53 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: SAP Object attachment in Decision workitem Email in outlook
 
 
We are setting up workflow for leave request. The workflow has been setup
fine and mails are sent to supervisor in his outlook mailbox whenever a
leave request is entered.
 
We now want to setup this email in outlook in such a way that it carries an
attachment (Probably an sap object)also, which upon clicking should take the
supervisor directly to the "approval screen" in sap (sapgui). Off course
after authentication.
 
I understand from the white paper on Generic Object Services that it
probably is possible. However I am not sure how to accomplish this nor did I
get any specific documentation about the same.
 
I would very much appreciate any help on specific steps to be carried out to
achieve this.
 
Thanking you very much
 
With Regards
 
Ashish Verma
 
PS. We are on 46C.