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Adding attachment to a flat file

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:39:53 GMT

Hi,

We have created a flat file. We need to add records to this file. For each record, an attachment has to be added. This attachment is like a field in that particular record. Is it possible to add an attachment in the file as part of the record.?

Regards

Albina

Re: Adding attachment to a flat file

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:52:21 GMT

Hi,

What is the type of the attachment?

If it is in a character format you can attach in the file. For other complex data types you cannot attach.

Re: Adding attachment to a flat file

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:53:55 GMT

hi Albina..

ur queston is not clear plz explain brief.

Regards

Vshal

Re: Adding attachment to a flat file

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:54:21 GMT

Hi,

Adding attachments inside flat file ur saying ?

It's not possible

Thanks

kishore

Re: Adding attachment to a flat file

Former Member — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:16:16 GMT

The attachment could be Word, Excel, PPT, PDF etc. So i suppose we cannot attach it in the file. Even i was under the same impression, but wasnt fully sure on that. Thanks for confirming. I suppose it would be possible to send/FTP this type of attachment from SAP to another server, right?

Re: Adding attachment to a flat file

Former Member — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:51:54 GMT

Hi,

You can send a file to another email address using Sap Business Workplace tcode SBWP.

If you want to send through program that also you can do.

You can use below FM to send files

SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1

SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1

Please let me know if this works for you..

Regards,

Rahul

Re: Adding attachment to a flat file

Former Member — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:56:08 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for you inputs. These files are of type Word, Excel, PPT, PDF etc. Is it possible to send these type of file types to an external server.?

Regards

Albina

Re: Adding attachment to a flat file

Sandra_Rossi — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:28:06 GMT

Hi Albina,

A file is "just a piece of bits". So it can contain whatever you want, provided that you define it in a correct format (for instance, a mail with attachments is simply a sequence of bits, have a look at the MIME International standard for more info). You can send a file from SAP by FTP to an FTP server (just search in the forum).

Please could you give the exact requirement, context and constraints, etc., so that we can advise you better?

Sandra