Attachments recommendation

[Michael Pokraka]

How dare you be so outspoken against the mighty Microsoft! (says me
writing on my Linux box :-)
 
Good point though, I'd be inclined to say stick with the minimum necessar=
y
- there's nothing wrong with plain text attachments (Sap default).
Of course it partly depends on corporate standards and guidelines, again
compatibility & interoperability is key, and if more than simple text is
required I'd agree to go with PDF as it is also can hold all kinds of inf=
o
and is acceptable/useable in almost all organizations. (I've even had
dealings with big corporates who would refuse to accept emailed Word/Exce=
l
documents).
 
Cheers
Mike
 
Kjetil Kilhavn wrote:
> That depends on what you need. Hey, I could be a consultant! I only nee=
d
> to
> add "which we will help you find out".
>
> Black/White TIFF or JPEG may be sufficient in some cases where an image=
 is
> needed, other times plain text is the best. Both of these should give
> acceptable response times. PDF is a quite good format since readers are
> freely availble for many operating systems ("many operating systems" do=
es
> not mean "XP Professional and XP Home"), and it satisfies some legal
> requirements for non-changeability, at least here in Norway.
>
> Anything that has to do with Microsoft Office should be avoided like ot=
her
> plagues. How will you handle it when Microsoft's new program versions c=
an
> not read the old document formats? How can you convert attachments stor=
ed
> in the database. Not to mention the lock-in. Proprietary formats =3D op=
en
> wallet (your wallet, and it is not to accept incoming money).
>
> If you need "Office" documents, use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice.
> Documents
> are stored in XML format with the file acting as a container (zipped
> archive), which means that in the worst case scenario you can unzip the
> file and read the XML with a plain text editor.
>
> PS: Although I have a personal vendetta since DOS erased my whole OS/2
> partition (including data) around 10 years ago, I am not necessarily
> wrong...
> Microsoft still have not been able to integrate speech recognition in t=
he
> operating system - I had that in the mid-nineties when I ran OS/2 on my
> home computer (which now runs SuSE Linux). OS/2 also had a truly
> object-oriented user interface, the one thing I miss most in Linux and =
any
> other operating system available today - except eComStation which is ba=
sed
> on OS/2.
> Why would anyone trust Microsoft - a company with a poor record track o=
n
> technology developement, interoperability, security and backwards
> compatibility - with something as important as documents? The company h=
as
> been good at two things: marketing and ... eh ... eh... illegal sales
> agreements which prevented the users possibility to chose between
> alternative solutions.
> --
> Kjetil Kilhavn
>
>
>
>
>
>                     Shayam Agrawal
>                     <shayamagrawal at lycos        To:
> SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>                     .com>                       cc:     (bcc: Kjetil
> Kilhavn)
>                     Sent by: SAP                Subject:     Attachment=
s
> recommendation
>                     Workflow
>                     <Owner-SAP-WUG at MITVM
>                     A.MIT.EDU>
>
>
>                     26.11.2003 07:04
>                     Please respond to
>                     "SAP Workflow Users'
>                     Group"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi All,
> Good day,
>
> I need a recommendation on workitem attachments.
> Which document type should we recommend the customer for attachmemt to
> work
> items as with .PPT and .jpg attachment the work item execution takes lo=
ng
> time because it executes SAPFSSO0 report to read office document and
> consumes lot of CPU.
>
> Any thought/recommendation is highly appreciated,
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Shayam Agrawal
>
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