attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)

[Sergey Breslavets]

Hi Monica,
 
Simplest way:  you can substitute sendmail step with you own background
task, where you would generate plain text report and send it either as
attachment of as body text using one of the sapoffice sendmail
functions.
 
To make it look nicer you can use Sapscript instead (generate sapscript
report and pass it as binary content).  I used that technique to
generate and send scanned image of a vendor invoice as an email
attachment.
 
I'll try to find some code examples and send to you if you want.
 
There is also a step type in 4.6 you can use in the workflow - Generate
Document from a template. You can create doc template (e.g. using MS
Word) and insert a placeholders in the text which would at generation
time be substituted with values from corresponding container elements.
I'm not sure if it'll work in case of tabular data though..
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Regards,
Sergey..
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: M Doe [mailto:monica_sap at hotmail.com]=20
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:52 PM
To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
 
Hi Sergery,
 
Please explain how.
 
Regards,
Monica
 
 
>From: Sergey Breslavets <sergey.breslavets at epstechnology.com>
>Reply-To: SAP Workflow Users' Group <SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:59:25 -0600
>
>Hi Monica,
>
>You can generate a document (expense report) within the workflow and
>send it as attachment...
>
>Regards,
>Sergey..
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: M Doe [mailto:monica_sap at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:29 PM
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
>
>Hello all,
>
>Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays!
>
>I have a question..I have a workflow that is sending an email to the
>manager
>telling the manager to go log in to R/3 to approve or reject.  The
>client
>now also is
>requesting that with this email I send an attachment of the expense
>statement of the employee so they can preview the details with the
>email.
>
>I am able to send this statement into the R/3 inbox since there is a
>display
>method behind this workitem but how do I attach it to the email.
>
>I am using " selfitem sendtaskdescription" in this workflow to send the
>email and when I try to attach this form to the attachments in binding
I
>get
>an error stating "Reference types 'D' and 'O' are not compatible "
>because
>the expense form is of "object" type which apparently I cannot attach.
>
>Please advise on how to handle this.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>Monica
>
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