Getting physical path from logical path

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am using the FM FILE_GET_NAME to get the physical path for a given logical path which I have specified within the FILE transaction.

The code works fine when I run the program in foreground but it doesn't work when I run it in background.

Can anyone advise on why this is and how I can get this to work correctly in background aswell as foregroud.

The ultimate goal is to be able to poll a directory on the SAP server (which could be windows or unix) and to process the files in there.

Thanks,

Ruby

[Former Member]

You canot activate FILE_GET_NAME in background mode, it requires user's interrupt.

Activate it according to sy-batch (eq X at background mode), meaning that if sy-batch is empty activate it and if it equals X initilize the file path with a default file without any user's interuction.

[Former Member]

Thank-you.

I would prefer to to use a default path if possible. The reason I defined a logical path was so that this could be defined outside the program.

Are you saying I cannot use this FM in background at all?

Is there another FM which will do the same thing but will work in background?

What I am trying to do is create a program which will run in the background polling a particular directory and then process the files in this directory if it finds any.

Do you know how I could achieve this using logical paths rather than using hardcoded paths?