Get .pdf file from url

[robert_lippmann]

Hi,

Here is my scenario, if do it manually:

I access a document management system via an url. Part of the url is customer number and invoice number. The DMS shows the requested invoice in the screen as pdf.

Now I am really wondering if this is possilbe with XI ? SAP creates the url, XI calls the DMS and a pdf available to be sent further on ?

Robert

[robert_lippmann]

Hi,

Thanks for the answers so far.

So it should be possible to read and get the data with the http adapter?

How would I create a file from this string ?

Robert

[henrique_pinto]

If you mean download a file from a URL, no, you can't do that with http adapter.

Regards,

Henrique.

[Former Member]

Hi !

Maybe you can make a BPM scenario, that is triggered by a RFC/BAPI call from R3 sending the customer number, etc and all the info to create the URL, then download the PDF via SOAP or HTTP adapter and leave it in a temporary folder in the file system.

Then create another scenario, that monitors that folder and makes whatever you need with that PDF, for example, use the mail adapter to send it by mail.

Hope it helps!

Matias.

[VijayKonam]

Basicaly what you have to do id, you need to go to the URL and get the file, store it in a place where XI can take it from there. This could be in any language like microsfot technologies or Java. After that it is a plain file sending scenario.

Hope it helps,

Vijay

[henrique_pinto]

Two things:

1. If you need to get file from a url, then you'll have to develop a sender java proxy.

2. also, if you need to extract info from pdf (not binary file2file), you'll have to use some kind of pdf api, either in Java proxy, custom module (in sender comm channel) or Java mapping.

Regards,

Henrique.