topic Image Archiving - Information needed in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Image Archiving - Information needed

Former Member — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:55:42 GMT

We have a request to keep track of a Custom Developed Smart Form. This document is sent our business partner . We need to store this document somewhere for viewing at a later time.

I was considering if this can be achieved via Archiving. We currently Archive few documents to an Secondary storage system (Tape).

I would appreciate if anyone could shed more light on this and the best solution.

Re: Image Archiving - Information needed

Former Member — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:10:37 GMT

Hi,

You should go for Outgoing document archiving using ArchiveLink.

Checkout the following links

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/4f/99335d446d11d189700000e8322d00/content.htm">Storing Outgoing Documents</a>

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/d7/e21f59408e11d1896b0000e8322d00/content.htm">Archiving Outgoing SD Documents</a>

Also visit https://service.sap.com/archivelink

Hope this helps

Cheers!

Samanjay

Re: Image Archiving - Information needed

Former Member — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:01:05 GMT

We create a PDF for these documents and they are stored (with indexes) in our document management system (web based). We use SAP Archivelink to show those PDF documents.

Re: Image Archiving - Information needed

Former Member — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:45:00 GMT

Hello,

If you choose to do Image Archiving, you will need a 3rd Party Storage Solution or use SAP Content Server. You should not send this data to tape. You will need to send it to either optical storage or some type of WORM Hard Disk solution such as EMC Centera, NetApp's, or Filenet.

Regards,

Karin Tillotson

Re: Image Archiving - Information needed

Former Member — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:58:28 GMT

We currently use ArchiveLink to Archive IDocs, Workitems and USR* tables to a secondary storage system. Our storage type(OAC0) is RFC Archive and we use IBM-CommonStore to transfer data to the secondary storage system.

I would like to give a try on Image Archiving before our Business approves for any 3rd Party storage solution. Is there any way I can give them a demo using existing so called tools that I have (R/3, CommonStore, RFC, blah..blah...). If so what configuration,add'l coding is necessary to try out a demo scenario?