attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)

[M Doe]

Hi,
 
I don't know if you have completely understood my situation.  I have a
method already which displays the expense report .  How do I attach this to
the sendmail task?  The sendmail task attachment is looking for something
with the object type SOFM and this expense report is not.  How do I make
this expense report object type SOFM? How do I make this expense report an
office document?
 
 
You mentioned that I should use  one of the sapoffice sendmail functions- do
you mean using object type SOFM.
 
Thanks.
Monica.
 
 
 
>From: Alon Raskin <araskin at eOutlook.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: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 04:29:29 -0600
>
>Hi Adnan,
>
>I dont think you can because the method doesnt return anything to indicate
>that the note was created. You could redefine the method to do this but I
>think my earlier suggestion is easier for you and if designed well can be
>reused in other developments.
>
>Alon
>
>________________________________
>
>From: SAP Workflow on behalf of Adnan Alawi
>Sent: Mon 19/01/2004 09:46
>To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
>
>
>
>Thanks Alon,
>        I will try the way you said.
>    I thought of using selfitem.Note_Create which I have used before.
>But the only question in mind was , how to make it mandatory to the
>user to send his document ?
>
>Regards
>Adnan
>
>
> >From: Alon Raskin <araskin at eOutlook.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: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:10:08 -0600
> >
> >Hi Adnan,
> >
> >Why not just create a virtual attribute on a delegated sub-type of
> >WORKINGWI called Attachments? You could then use WAPI
> >SAP_WAPI_GET_ATTACHMENTS to retrieve the attachments and check that the
> >user has attached something. The work item might have a few attachments
>so
> >it might be easier to write a method that looks for the specific
>attachment
> >that you want to make mandatory. If the method does not find the
>attachment
> >then you re-route the work item back the users inbox.
> >
> >Alon
> >
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> >
> >From: SAP Workflow on behalf of Adnan Alawi
> >Sent: Sat 17/01/2004 09:15
> >To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> >Subject: Re: attachments with email (selfitem- sendtaskdescription)
> >
> >
> >
> >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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