SAP & Lotus notes Integration

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I've a requirement wherein I have to send a workitem as mail (Leave request) from SAP R/3 to Lotus Notes and the User needs to Approve/Reject it from Lotus Notes.

When the user Approves/Rejects, the same should be updated in SAP R/3.

Can anyone tell me how to integrate SAP & Lotus Notes.

Thanks in advance.

[christian_zalto]

The "Leave Request" is a standard scenario in SAP/IBM Alloy, see http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/alloy/

Leave management - Approve and submit leave requests from the familiar Lotus Notes environment. View contextual information to make approval decisions. Leave requests are processed according to approval guidelines in SAP ERP.

You'll neeed Notes 8 to get this working.

If you are on Notes 7 you could use the (deprecated) solution "IBM Lotus Notes access for SAP solutions", see http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/notesforsap/index.html

The Leave Request form can be submitted to SAP through either the calendar (where it's a new view action) or the Mail database's Create menu. You set the dates of the leave period, choose a type code from a list pulled from SAP, and enter the approving manager. Submitting the request creates a workflow that marks the calendar entries for the requested period as tentative and routes it to the manager for approval. The manager can see an overview of all outstanding leave requests for the period and either approves or rejects the request. Approved requests are recorded in SAP, a notification email is sent to the employee, and the calendar entries are updated.

An even simpler integration could be done by scheduling the RSWUWFML2 report in SAP. This will send out notification mails for open workitems.