RSWUWFML - with attachment to launch user's SAP inbox

[Soady, Phil]

The file cmd is not the intended use of SAPGUI shortcutz.
 
As an attachment with no logon details. Just the object/tcode to be launched.
The user is the prompted for logon.
 
SAPGUI Shortcutz already support the piggy back on SSO2 ticket when used
in the portal environment. You "just" need to generate the shortcut properly.
 
A version of RSWUWFML that can do this is expected soon.
(Cue Alan....)
 
For more details on SSO and Shortcutz see the Security papers on the Portals website
at SAP.
 
I don't recommend people send shortcutz externally.
(Mail firewall should remove them on outgoing mail) .
 
If people are supposed to logon with a the WN32 gui to SAP from outside the extranet,
then perhaps this ok.  But I would look to have this start as an open document command
not as an explicit file://cmd.exe
 
WebGUI is more common is such scenarios. But if you must send the shortcut externally,
and use WN32 gui, then if the user has a gui, surely his PC should recognise the shortcut
as it does .doc or .pdf
Surely the short cut can be opened in the same manner a pdf ?
Perhaps I misunderstood something here but I don't see why it is
necessary to use a URL instead of an attachment.
 Is it necessary to use a URL ?
 
I feel uncomfortable with URL that commences file://cmd.exe
 
regards
Phil
 
Phil Soady
Senior Consultant - Business Technologies
Professional Services
SAP Australia
Level 1, 168 Walker Street, North Sydney 2060, Australia.
M   +61 412 213 079
E   phil.soady at sap.com
 
 
 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 4:00 AM
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Subject: Re: RSWUWFML - with attachment to launch user's SAP inbox
 
 
Ramki,
 
Thanks for the reply, however this won't/doesn't work because the URL then has spaces in which the browser doesn't like.
 
 
Kind regards,
Nicholas Brand
 
 
 
 
 
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Nichloas,
 
Try making the URL exactly what you pasted into the DOS prompt. (Remove the file:///cmd.exe and the quotes)
 
 
Regards,
Ramki Maley
Workflow Developer, USCBP.
248-613-1287 (C)
 
In a message dated 11/25/2003 8:02:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, nicholas.n.brand at uk.ibm.com writes: Hello,
 
A quick question on the email notification program.
 
We're using SAP v4.7.
 
Here's what we want to happen:
 
Users get notified by email when they have new workitems - the email has an attachment or URL that when executed launches SAP, after logging on the user is taken directly to his Business Workplace.
 
We've copied RSWUWFML and made some additions to it.
We can send an email with a url to the user's MSOutlook address. The URL looks like this: <file:///cmd.exe "c:\Program Files\SAP\FrontEnd\sapgui\SAP\FrontEnd\sapgui\sapshcut.exe" -user=nberkland -language=en -system=SRD -client=140 -sysname=R/3 DEV -command=SO01>
 
The <> enclosing the URL means MSOutlook interprets the whole string as a URL.
 
If we click the URL from MSOutlook we get the message 'Cannot find file...followed by the parameter list'
 
This URL does not work; yet if we paste part of it into a DOS prompt it does work - i.e. "c:\Program Files\SAP\FrontEnd\sapgui\SAP\FrontEnd\sapgui\sapshcut.exe"
-user=nberkland -language=en -system=SRD -client=140 -sysname=R/3 DEV -command=SO01
 
Our ABAP developer assumed the <file:///cmd.exe command was an http command to execute a file.
 
So, the question is how can we launch the same program (the SAPGUI
shortcut) from a URL, including passing the necessary parameters (e.g.
userid) from MSOutlook.
 
Can anyone provide the missing link? Hmmm
 
 
Kind regards,
Nicholas Brand