XSF formatted mail looks different in sost and ms outlook

[Former Member]

Hi,

I created a smartform which have two image and a standart text. In code I transformed this smartform to xsf format and send via e-mail. In SOST it looks fine and exactly same with smartform but in MS Outlook its format ruined.

Any ideas for this difference between sost and outlook.

Thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am facing a similar issue wherein the smartform content is displayed in the mail body in SOST but the formatting is completely lost.

Any inputs on this is highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Regards

Vinaya

[Former Member]

Solved by myself. Differences become because of outlook s default css. I modified xml table in program to fit outlook.

[Former Member]

Hi Tolga,

I too created the XSF output for smartform and the message is generated in SOST. but I dont know how to view this request's output. I get some .sgf file from SOST. but dont know how to open it. Can you help me out?

[praveen_kumar194]

hi i am also facing same problem. kindly tell me how did you complete it. even i converted smart form into html format and send put it in the body of email on WEBUI and pressed send button. mail is coming to my outlook inbox. but image is not displayed and formatting also not correct. kindly respond.

[Former Member]

please, send your solution

[DavidLY]

Hello,

Usually when you use the XSF format, you use an external program,

which is doing the formatting and final processing of the form. So the

external program takes the XSF data (which is an XML format and

only contains information like which text is printed in which

window), creates the real print data out of it and sends it to the

printer. Without the external program the XSF data are useless.

SAPconnect does not provide the functionality to interecept

the send process. SAPconnect takes the

ready formatted data at the application send interface

and gives it down to the external SMTP interface. There are

just some internal formats that can be converted by SAPconnect

(e.g. OTF) during the send process.

So the data has to be formatted before the send interface

is called - somewhere in the application program.

Maybe you try to find out which application calls the send module

and ask whether there is an option to format the data.

Regards,

David

[Former Member]

Hi David,

I wonder can mail server solve this XSF like SOST? Standart text formatted centered and fonts are special created with Z. (Customer wants fancy mail) If I will start change XML's internal table its take so long and even can t sure it will be OK in every text.

Regards