topic Re: File Access in Application Development and Automation Discussions

File Access

Former Member — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:15:16 GMT

Hi All,

I have to get to images stored on server outside the SAP landscape.

The urls start with file://... via a browser the files are accessible,

from within SAP they are not. Am I overlooking something?

I tried to use http_get and similar function modules already.

Can somebody of you please point me in the good direction?

Thanks,

Koen

Re: File Access

AlessandroSpadoni — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:29:02 GMT

Hi Koen,

via browser it's your local pc that accesses the files, oterwise

via http_get or similar it's the Sap server;

you could try to check if Sap host is authorized to access the files

Re: File Access

Former Member — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:39:33 GMT

Hi Keon,

First SAP should be able to access the images in the external server. To check that quickly, if you have ADS installed, goto SFP, create a test adobe form and place a Image UI element. In that, place the URL and see if you can see the image instantly.

I had a similar requirement where product SKU images were stored in different server and I had to read the images dynamically at runtime based on their size and display requirements. I binded the URL & SKU dynamically to read from the external server.

Thanks,

Santosh

Re: File Access

Former Member — Fri, 13 May 2011 08:41:56 GMT

Hi Santosh,

I am able to see the images in the sfp transaction, but when i want to dynamically generate the

document, I don't get the output.

In the logs there is mentioning of BASE64 conversion error, but so far I haven't found a solution to that.

Do you have a clue about this one?

Thanks,

Koen