Office Integration with FORM_INFO:limiting the amount of characteristics

[Former Member]

At a client we are implementing MS Office 2010 and the FORM_INFO Office Integration (using the "normal SAP GUI, not Easy DMS). We are experiencing perfomance issues, probably due the fact that we have 3 companies that use different document types, each with their own classes & characteristics (some of which are multivalue).

When we want to change a word file there are hundreds of SAP characteristic file properties added to the word file, most of which have no relevance for the document we are changing. Opening a file can now take several minutes before the editing of the content can begin.

In the old LINK_SERV technology (which is being used here for the Office 2003 documents) the link only retrieves the information for the characteristics defined in the word file as links.

Has any of you found a way to control per document type which characteristics (and their values) get passed on to the file properties instead of dumping all of them irrespective of which ones are used?

Maybe this can be done by one of the BADIs?

[christoph_hopf · Accepted solution]

Dear Gerjan,

based on your description from DMS point of view I can only offer you the BADI definition "DOCUMENT_OFFINTEGR01" and maybe the method EDIT_FORM_ITEMS which might be useful to achieve the desired behavior regarding the office integration behavior.

Best regards,

Christoph

[Former Member]

An important node to those of you that want to use this. When we implemented EHP 5 this stopped working and SAP advised us to remove this coding again. Which led to the same performance issue coming up once more

We are now forced to do a lot more programming, actually creating a table that we contains the characteristics that we want to be communicated from SAP to the Office application.

It is still in the same BADI, but will require more work than in EHP 4

[Former Member]

Thank you for this, we will ask a programmer to see where we can influence the sending of characteristics to MS Office

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am facing the same performance problem. Did you find a solution?

Thank you for your feedback!

Best regards

Matthias Beer

Villeroy & Boch

[Former Member]

We now implemented some code in the areas suggested by Christoph. it basically transfers only the characteristics that have values in the DIR. Performance is very good, it only takes seconds now for a file to open.

[Former Member]

Hello,

ok, thank you. We would be interested on the coding. Is it possible for you to provide it? Since many customers have the same problem, this is an issue for a SAP note. Is this planned?

Best regards

Matthias Beer

[Former Member]

In the Method IF_EX_DOCUMENT_OFFINTEGR01~EDIT_FORM_ITEMS

you need only to insert one simple line of coding

delete FORM_TRANSFER_DATA where ITEM_VALUE = ' '.

This will remove the empty values before transfer.

[Former Member]

Thank you!