Attachments recommendation

[Van der Burg, Jeroen JA SITI-ITPSEE]

Hi Mike,
 
Note that PDF has the additional advantage of not being (easily) =
changeable. I use it extensively for HR documents sent out of SAP with a =
legal aspect (eg remuneration overviews etc). The option to include your =
company logo in full color is a nice extra!
 
 
Regards,
 
 
Jeroen
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pokraka [mailto:workflow at quirky.me.uk]
Sent: 26 November 2003 19:18
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Attachments recommendation
 
 
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 =
necessary
- 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 =
info
and is acceptable/useable in almost all organizations. (I've even had
dealings with big corporates who would refuse to accept emailed =
Word/Excel
documents).
 
Cheers
Mike
 
Kjetil Kilhavn wrote:
> That depends on what you need. Hey, I could be a consultant! I only =
need
> 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" =
does
> 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 =
other
> plagues. How will you handle it when Microsoft's new program versions =
can
> not read the old document formats? How can you convert attachments =
stored
> in the database. Not to mention the lock-in. Proprietary formats =3D =
open
> 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 =
the
> 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 =
based
> on OS/2.
> Why would anyone trust Microsoft - a company with a poor record track =
on
> technology developement, interoperability, security and backwards
> compatibility - with something as important as documents? The company =
has
> 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:     =
Attachments
> 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 =
long
> 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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