to embed HP printing capabilities in NetWeaver
SAP is embedding print management capabilities from Hewlett-Packard into its NetWeaver platform in a move to bolster document management for end users.
Under the partnership, the print and output management technology from HP will be further enhanced through a joint development agreement. Customers define, manage and track document delivery from a single location using HP's printing management capabilities, said Rosanne Wyleczuk, manager of document delivery solutions at HP.
"As much as we want it to go paperless, fax, paper, e-mails and Web documents are still sometimes needed in paper form to make business processes work," Wyleczuk said. "This allows SAP customers to streamline document delivery."
Company help desk support personnel receive up to 4,000 requests annually related to printing and document management issues, according to Wyleczuk. Duplicated processes and integration failures have added to the complexity and challenges for end users, she said.
The embedded print capabilities will be part of the NetWeaver installation process. Customers will see HP print management capabilities as part of the installation portal.
"By embedding these components in the SAP environment it will result in productivity improvements and easier job training," Wyleczuk said. "Instead of managing thousands of devices, SAP customers can have a unified interface for device management as well as document job management."
The new capabilities will be made generally available in June as part of a NetWeaver service pack for customers running the mySAP Business Suite.
HP is also highlighting its adaptive computing capabilities aimed at large SAP customers as well as two new customer centers which will be used to showcase SAP on HP products.
Located in Atlanta and Houston, the $4 million customer centers will allow SAP users to develop a proof of plan concept from a design build perspective, said Dave Parsons, vice president of industry solutions at HP. SAP and HP have been partnering for about 15 years and have had more than 40,000 joint installations, Parsons said.
"We'll be providing an environment for our customers to understand, implement, and internalize through a number of partners and peripheral providers," Parsons said.
QUESTION POSED ON: 20 September 2007
I am running ECC 6.0 in AIX with DB2. When I go into Smart Forms and create a text element, I am not seeing the icons that I saw in earlier versions of SAP. What I am specifically looking for is the three functions for fields in the inline version of the PC Editor. As you may recall, these are Include, Change and Delete. How can I get them to show up? The only options I see right now are Insert Field and URL. Please advise.
EXPERT RESPONSE
You are seeing a new MS Word editor for SAPscript and Smart Forms. The good news: This one is Unicode-enabled for Hebrew and Arabic. The bad news: It is missing other features found in the earlier editor.
I recently experienced this issue in ECC 5.0 as well, after a client's support pack upgrade. In our case, we decided to switch it back as our form developers were getting various Visual Basic pop-up error messages while using the new MS Word editor ( e.g. "Code execution has been interrupted").
Here are the instructions we followed from SAP on how to switch it back. Note that this is a global switch (it will impact everyone):
"Call transaction se38, enter program RSCPINST or program RSCPSETEDITOR and press Execute (F8). On the next screen, select Goto -> Set MS Word as Editor. When the checkbox is selected, deselect checkbox SAPscript/ Smart Forms and press 'Activate'. When it is not selected, simply press 'Activate'."
Once you have done the above, completely leave the Smart Forms transaction and then re-enter it. You should now see the earlier editor again, with all its icons intact.
For earlier releases the steps above might be slightly different. This is all documented in SAP Note 791199 ("Default editor changed to MS Word in SAPscript and Smart Forms").
QUESTION POSED ON: 15 August 2007
Which method should I use for uploading data?
- Call transaction
- Batch Input Method
- LSMW
- BAPI
EXPERT RESPONSE
You use LSMW to do data migration –- initial uploads of data and bulk data loads. Use BAPI in all other situations, if a suitable one exists. Otherwise, use 'Batch Input' if you want to be able to use SM35 to manage the input. Use 'Call Transaction' if you want to do something else.
QUESTION POSED ON: 15 August 2007
When we generate a classical report, parameters were used at the selection screen. If there is no record for the particular parameter, then a user has to call it up, but it says the specified record is not available. How can we fix this?
EXPERT RESPONSE
Look at the function modules in groups SPO1, SPO2, SPO3 and SPO4. You can call the appropriate one in the END-OF-SELECTION event or the AT SELECTION-SCREEN event. However, if much data is selected you should use the former rather than the latter – conceptually it is wrong to select volumes of data in the AT SELECTION-SCREEN event.
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