How to integrate and index SAP R/3 Office documents into resp. through KM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Is there a way to integrate an existing store of SAPOffice documents on R/3, stored by default in the SAP R/3 table SOFFCONT1 (KPro repository SOFFDB), into the KM on the portal, so that these documents can be indexed and searched through TREX from the portal ?

I know there is the SAP DMS KM Connector available right now, but apparently this connector only allows access to documents stored in DMS on R/3.

What the best approach to this problem.

Could a migration of these documents to SAP Content Server be a solution ?

Thanks in advance for your input.

Message was edited by: Theo Paesen

[Former Member]

Hi Theo,

Migration to content server (optional) and then building fake DMS DIRs containing referneces to these documents, in order to expose these documents through DMS RM is one option. Programming a custom RM which directly exposes these documents from BDS/KPro APIs is another.

We are also in the process of building a lt wt RM for content server itself, which bypasses SAP for performance reasons. Let me know if you are interested.

Regards,

Vishal

[Former Member]

Vishal,

Thanks for your suggestions.

I think building a custom connector (RM) is indeed the best option.

I am not an ABAP developer, more familiar with KMC

Could you point me to some more detailed information on the BDS/KPro APIs. Are these also available as BAPIs, callable from an external Java application.

Something else, the SAP Office documents I am referring to are actually attachments to Notifications in R/3s QM module. So, the documents I want to build a RM for are these QM notifications (the parent business documents) and their related attachments (the SOFFCONT1 stored docs).

Could you point out which RFC modules I will need to get at both (bizdoc + attachments).

Thanks in advance for your input

[Former Member]

Hi Theo,

As you said you can use the BDS API to retirve these documents. Try using RFC enabled FMs starting with name BDS_BUSINESSDOCUMENT_GET* and you will find different ways to fetch the content from java app based on QM object IDs.

Keep me posted on how it worked out at the end.

Good luck.

Vishal

[former_member350660]

Hi,

We're also looking for a way to intergrate BDS into the portal. We're trying to do this as you suggested by RFC and by use of the repository framework.

We're wondering how your work is going. Are you any further and could you maybe supply us with example code. We're still at the beginning of the project and some (start up) help is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance