Extended Notification Links & SAPLogon.ini file

[Ramki Maley]

Thanks Kjetil and Florin for your inputs.

Regards,
Ramki.

Florin Wach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small piece of information to contribute:
> 
> The SAP Logon INI-File can be specified with the environment variable setting
> 
> SAPLOGON_INI_FILE
> 
> and the full qualified path to the .ini-File.
> 
> I use this for my roaming desktop environment and let the variable point to a file within my home drive.
> 
> Environment variable settings /can/ be centralized set by the Windows Domain Controller with "Computer policy settings".
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> Florin
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 08:54:57 +0100
>> Von: Kjetil Kilhavn <kjetil.kilhavn at bluec.no>
>> An: "SAP Workflow Users\' Group" <sap-wug at mit.edu>
>> Betreff: Re: Extended Notification Links & SAPLogon.ini file
> 
>> Onsdag 9. desember 2009 07.36.59 skrev Ramki Maley:
>>> I have created an OSS message for the issue and would like to know if
>>> anyone had faced a similar issue.
>>>
>>> SAP_ABA/Basis SP70015 on ECC 6.0
>>>
>>> I have configured the Extended Notification tool to send collective
>>> email with links to SAP Inbox and Workitem execution using SAPGUI. The
>>> emails are generated correctly. However the links cannot launch SAPGUI
>>> when there is no SAPLogon.ini file in the receivers Windows folder on
>>> their PC.
>> We had the same issue in Statoil where there also was a special INI file
>> for 
>> the production systems, and it is an issue with SAP Logon Pad, not the 
>> notification program. We did not try to solve it, instead we worked around
>> it 
>> by using a different approach that did not depend on the INI files (we 
>> specified all necessary parameters to connect to a particular system).
>>
>> I don't work for Statoil any longer and am not able to recall much of the 
>> specific details, but as I recall we used the same format for our string
>> that 
>> they used to launch transactions in specific SAP systems from the
>> (non-SAP) 
>> intranet portal.
>>
>>> I did not find any configuration option in SWNCONFIG that I can specify
>>> which ini file to be used in generating the shortcut. Is it absolutely
>>> necessary to have the SAPLogon.ini inthe user's desktop?
>>>
>>> We also use SSO to login to SAP.
>> Single sign-on was is use in Statoil as well.
>>
>> If you are going to find a solution my best guess would be changing some 
>> settings in the Windows Registry. Unless the name of the default INI file
>> is 
>> hardcoded (which is a no-no) the setting should be in the registry.
>>
>> If you succeed you should also make sure that a notification message from
>> a 
>> test system can not take you to a production system. Perhaps you have
>> solved 
>> this by not using single sign-on in test systems etc.
>> -- 
>> Kjetil Kilhavn (+47 40220607)
>> Blue Consulting AS (http://www.bluec.no)
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