BDS - Print attachments.

[Former Member]

I have a report that, among other things, has vendor invoices as one of the fields.  Currently the report looks at the BDS to determine if there is an attachment (using FM BDS_ALL_CONNECTIONS_GET).  If there is an attachment then it simply tells the user that via a field in the ALV.  The next step is to allow the user to print the attachments using a button on the ALV. First the user will highlight the row that corresponds to the invoice in question and click the button. 

My issue is that I am unable to find a way to print these documents.  The FM that I use returns to me the document ID.  I can take that document ID to FM SO_DOCUMENT_READ_API1 and that gives me the contents in two different tables.  One is in Hex form and the other is what I assume is binary but I could be wrong.

I am wondering, how do I take this Hex format and print it?  Is there a FM to print the BDS document directly?

Regards.

[Former Member]

I have a report that, among other things, has vendor invoices as one of the fields.  Currently the report looks at the BDS to determine if there is an attachment (using FM BDS_ALL_CONNECTIONS_GET).  If there is an attachment then it simply tells the user that via a field in the ALV.  The next step is to allow the user to print the attachments using a button on the ALV. First the user will highlight the row that corresponds to the invoice in question and click the button. 

My issue is that I am unable to find a way to print these documents.  The FM that I use returns to me the document ID.  I can take that document ID to FM SO_DOCUMENT_READ_API1 and that gives me the contents in two different tables.  One is in Hex form and the other is what I assume is binary but I could be wrong.

I am wondering, how do I take this Hex format and print it?  Is there a FM to print the BDS document directly?

Regards.

[Former Member]

Adam,

     If possible, take the binary content and convert it to pdf format so that you can download it and take the print.

~Athreya

[arindam_m]

Hi,

Please try to use the FM BDS_OBJECT_DISPLAY to get the file content in table CONTENT, You also have the ASCII format in ASCII_CONTENT. Then to achieve your functionality of print can you put this in Application server or presentation server using FM SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE and print from there.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Arindam

[Former Member]

Arindam,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I am running into a problem finding the URL of the document for FM BDS_OBJECT_DISPLAY.  I have tried to use FM BDS_BUSINESSDOCUMENT_GET_URL but it says that nothing is found when I pass the correct parameters (the same parameters that I pass to BDS_ALL_CONNECTIONS_GET.

[arindam_m]

Hi,

Try the FM BDS_BUILD_URL_FOR_AL to build the URL for the doc. Also check BDS_BUSINESSDOCUMENT_GET_URL if URL exists.

Cheers,

Arindam