Question:
I need some help
We are currently running R/3 3.1I and have a requirement to give access to a large number of external Agents. These agents will be required to process sales orders, deliveries, production orders, and order confirmations and run reports from a web browser. We are thinking about using ITS and SAPGUI for HTML but have a number of issues
1. Printing to printers on LPT1 from the browser (picking slips, delivery dockets - not supported til 4.6). We currently use faxing in other areas of the business but are concerned with the lag time for faxing.
2. How to present a modified sales order entry screen to web users only - normal users still access standard screens.
Your thoughts appreciated
Answer:
1. For the user to print, you usually present them with a printer "friendly" HTML page which can be printed from the browser
2. The only way to give cut down version of sales order entry is to create your own transaction (and web enable it) and create the real sales order via a BAPI.
I would not advise you giving people SAPGUI for HTML via the Internet. This basically is the normal SAP screens via the web. Unless these people are familar with SAP, the screens are not very friendly.
Hope that helps.
Answer:
Thanks for the reply.
1. The printing that I required is for documents like picking slips and delivery dockets where the printer is predefined in config and the output is not presented on the users screen. I understand that this type of printing to the frontend is not available until vers 4.6b. I would like to think that there was another way to print these documents
Answer:
An alternative method is to use create a PDF document from the spool entry of the required document. This can be sent to the web client via MIME-DOWNLOAD.
I have a copy of the sample code to do this ( I found it on this site sometime ago) Either give me your email address and I'll send it to you or search this site for it.
Answer:
Hi JimmyMac,
Can you please send me the sample code on MIME-DOWNLOAD, to the below id
gurunath13@yahoo.co.in.
Thanks in advance
Gurunath