SRM 5.0 External Catalog is not working in SRM 7.0

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am facing an issue with External Catalog. It is working fine in SRM 5.0 but not working in SRM 7.0. I added the returntarget parameter and HOOKURL but still no luck. The parameters I have entered are

http://www.xxx.es/punchout/sap/ocipunchouthtml.aspx?username=xxx&password=xxx

USERNAME XXX Fixed Value

PASSWORD XXX Fixed Value

retruntarget _top Fixed Value

HOOKURL Return URL

The issue is that when I directly put the catalog URL in browser, it takes me to correct page from where I can shop but if I click the same link through SRM 7.0, it is navigating to some other page of vendor catalog from where items can't be added to shopping basket.

Please suggest.

Thanks,

Anshuk Saxena

[Former Member]

Solved

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Could you please let me know, how the issue is resolved ?

Regards

Venkatesh P

[Former Member]

Hi Anshuk/venkatesh,

Can you please share the solution steps for this issue...we are facing this same issue now in SRM 7.1.

[Former Member]

Hi ,

You need to maintain this call structure in SRM system standard call structure .

5 https://url

10 USERNAME

15 PASSWORD

20 CURRENCY EUR

25 BORG

26 E_mail

27 Country

30 reqUsername

35 reqPassword

40 buyer_mpid

45 USER_ID SY-UNAME

50 Language EN

55 BYPASS_OUTB_HANDLER X

56 BYPASS_INB_HANDLER X

80 HOOK_URL

85 ~OkCode ADDI

90 ~target _TOP

95 ~CALLER CTLG

Thanks & Regards

Pradeep Kumar Dondeti

[masa_139]

Hi,

If you use SRM with NetWeaver Portal, please set returntarget=_parent.

Regards,

Masa

[Former Member]

Hi Masa,

Appreciate your prompt response. However issue has not resolved after changing returntarget parameter from _top to _parent. SRM External Catalog link is still navigating to vendor portal from where items can't be added to shopping basket. Please suggest.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hello Anshuk,

Try with ..

HOOK_URL 0 URL

No other change.

Regards,

Vikas

[Former Member]

Hi Vikas,

I entered HOOK_URL 0 Return URL but still iexternal catalog is not working as expected.

[masa_139]

Hi,

It looks like the vendor does not handle the returntarget parameter which required in OCI 4.0.

Can you ask the vendor to support OCI 4.0?

If not, SAP has some workaround solution and note is available somthing called inbound handler.

Regards,

Masa

[Former Member]

Hi Masa,

If vendor is not supporting OCI 4.0 then how this catalog is working fine in SRM 5.0.

Thanks,

[masa_139]

It was just luckily worked with hard coded value "_top".

I know many suppliers who support OCI 2.0 with hard coded value but do not support dynamic "returntarget" handling in OCI 3.0 or 4.0.