attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)

[Adnan Alawi]

Hiiiiiii,
   I have a question on attachments, how do u make attachments
OBLIGATORY ? or check that the user has attached a something ?
 
Regards
Adnan
 
 
>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 16:20:19 -0600
>
>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..
>
>
>Regards,
>Sergey..
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: M Doe [mailto:monica_sap at hotmail.com]
>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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