The SAP documentation "Experience"

[Former Member]

Hi everybody,

I have a small problem with Adobe Document Services and so I need to check the configuration that I did.

I decided to use the last available documentation. Here is my experience on this specific case of documentation finding :

I started from the installation guide I used to install my J2EE system :

>SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 Java on Windows:

>MS SQL Server

>Based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0 including Enhancement Package 1

OK, page 107, I can read :

>Perform manual configuration as described in the Adobe Document Services Configuration

>Guide at:

>http://help.sap.com/nw70 SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Library (including Enhancement Package 1) English

>SAP NetWeaver Library Technology Consultantu2019s Guide Business Task Management Adobe Document Services

>(Configuration) Adobe Document Services Configuration Guide

Let's go to help.sap.com

Here I find first a list of important SAP notes.

The first one seems to be a must reading : 894009 Adobe document services: Configuration Guide (NW 7.0)

Let's go to read this note : I have to copy and paste the note number because the HTML link has not yet been invented at help.sap.com !

I now display the note which tells me that :

>The current version of the configuration guide for SAP NetWeaver 7.0 is at the Internet address >http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe. Choose Installation & Configuration -> SAP Interactive Forms - Configuration Guides.

>We recommend you always use the newest version.

OK, let's go to www.sdn.sap.com

Of course the screens have changed since the note was written and I have to find by myself that the configuration guide is here :

System Administration --> ADS Configuration

When I click on ADS Configuration, I'm back at the help.sap.com page where I came from !

On this page I can read :

>Check the newest printable version of this Configuration Guide in the SAP Service Marketplace, available at >http://service.sap.com/adobe ® Media Library ® Documentation.

Ok, back to service.sap.com where I am welcomed by this great message :

>The content of your interest has been moved to the SAP Developer Network (SDN) Community within the SAP Community >Network.

>Please use the following link to access all information on SDN:

>http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/netweaver

>Please click to display the information about

>Adobe

>in a separate browser window.

If you click on the Adobe link, you get back to http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/adobe !

So the loop has been looped twice and I have now got a headache !

I think there is a good space for documentation improvements from SAP, don't you think so ?

I propose that if you make the same kind of SAP documentation "experience", you can report here.

Exposing it might be a way to get improvements and to have fun too !

Cheers,

Olivier

[Former Member]

Ok, I have one apology to do : In fact the link "Installation and configuration" does exist on the SDN page and Icould donwload a PDF ADS configuration guide.

But I did not see it first because of the headache I got from all the redirects !

Cheers,

Olivier

[Former Member]

By the way the ADS configuration PDF document has a very nice file name very easy to remember :

30a9630b-4f89-2a10-6fab-e311b3ffd9a6.pdf !

[Former Member]

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You could have used the GuideFinder ... provided you were able to find the GuideFinder. I was not ... this is its [url|https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700000186062009E].

[OttoGold]

Don´t tell me, Olivier. I answer this kind of "questions" every day in Adobe forms forum under NetWeaver. How comes, you didn´t come to ask there? I would give you a hand:)) Otto