Expert Help reqd Urgently- wf with external system

Mon Jul 28 07:33:19 EDT 2003

Hi Sunni,

Can't you just upload the file into SAP and do your check in there? Then =
you only need a simple WS_upload call and not the  RFC to a local =
service. Guess it all depends on how difficult the check on the data is, =
but when the check is relatively simple I would select this option as it =
is much simpler.=20

Preferably I would have the outside program generate a flat file on your =
SAP server with a workflow indicator already in it and have this =
uploaded by a regular job which can trigger workflow if the indicator is =
set to 'on'; this way you avoid any dependency on human beings. These =
kind of local uploads (which need to be triggered locally) tend to be =
forgotten quite quickly and thus require constant system administrator =
attention to be succesful in the long run.

Regards,

Jeroen

-----Original Message-----
From: Kouw, FA - SPLTX [mailto:fa.kouw at td.klm.com]
Sent: 28 July 2003 13:22
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Expert Help reqd Urgently- wf with external system

Hi,

EDI is meant for electronic exchange of structured data between =
different applications/systems. Maybe this offers a solution, using =
Idocs as the standard interface for data exchange through EDI (also ALE =
(Application Link Enabling) is a concept that enables data exchange =
between applications/systems, combined with
Idoc processing). Hope this information helps you a bit. There are =
several info sources that describe these concepts and the use of it.

Regards,

Fred Kouw

Michael Pokraka wrote:

> Hi,
> Your requirement is somewhat murky. 'Reading a dll file' doesn't =
really make sense. You may be talking about RFC? If so, you'd need to =
run some kind of RFC server on your windoze machine. This would be a =
service, and should provide functions which your ABAP calls vie RFC and =
gets appropriate return parameters.
> There's info in the RFC dev kit + lots of sample code (on the SAPGUI =
CD). This is a bit of work though, you may want to investigate other =
alternatives - perhaps your external system can update SAP instead (push =
vs pull approach)?
> Cheers
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 10:01:24AM +0000, Sunni sunni wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a requirement to write an ABAP program in R/3, which reads an
> > external system (Windows system ... dll files) the data is checked =
in the
> > external system and a yes/no result is returned back to R/3.  If its =
a yes
> > than the program kicks off a workflow.
> >
> > Now, kicking off the workflow is easy, but I dont know how ABAP =
reads a DLL
> > file (windows com component) in an external system , passes =
information to
> > it and gets a result passed back to it (must be real -time); any =
information
> > on how to do this in a simple way as possible will be much =
appreciated.
> >
> > Regards..
> > Sunni
> >
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