Integrated output of DMS-Documents with production order papers

[Former Member]

Is there anyone who knows how to bundle production order papers with DMS documents?

The main goal is to print the PP messages and the DMS-documents in the same spool preventing excessive paper handling.

There are plotting tools on the market, but there may be a simplier solution based on linking pp messages with DMS, perhaps with some ABAP?

Thanks for any reply.

Rico

[Former Member]

Hi Rico, i do have same requirement. Do you have solution to this requirement? 

[Former Member]

Rico,

There are several options you have to do this. I'm listing a couple of them:

1. There are BAPI's available that can get the data of DMS document in Byte Streams. You can then use this byte streams to create a Word / PDF documents. Also there are a couple of other Function Modules available that can conver a regular SAP document (SO, PO, List output, etc) into PDF. So, get this two Byte Streams, combine them into 1 single PDF document and then send the PDF document to the SPOOL.

2. You can download the PO data into a PDF file and you can also use BAPI_DOCUMENT_CHECKOUTVIEW2 that you can use to check out (Download) the DMS document to a local file. The next step will be to read this two document frm your local drive and send it across to the Spool as one single file.

You might have to do a little bit of digging to find the FM for converting a list / output into PDF format. I know there is one and I've used it but do not remember on the top of my head.

I'll see if I can catch hold of the FM and send it across to you but then this is a logic that can give you the desired result.

Regards,

Piyush

[Former Member]

do you recall the fm as all I can find is that 3rd party software is always required.

[Mark_D]

There are a few different things you could try. There are two main problems:

1: getting the attachments from DMS to print with the shop papers

2: providing the attachment in a printable format

There are a few vendors that offer solutions. Check for vendors that support the XDC interface. This is the document conversion interface that would be required for printing. The call to print would have to be developed within the shop paper itself. You could either develop that yourself or some vendors may provide that as well.

Check out:

http://www.saxsoft.de

http://www.sealsystems.de

http://dolphin-corp.com

I am not associated with any of these vendors.

[Former Member]

Hi

Have you tried it using idocs?

Cheers

badri

[Former Member]

No, because i've no idea how idocs could bundle several documents and messages in the PP output to one single spool.

Rico