Capture and View video in Work Manager Agentry App

[welshcathy]

Hiya,

I know SAP Work Manager supports adding / viewing photo attachments to objects as standard but I'd like to add video support.

I can add a video attachment in SAP GUI and see this in the work order attachment list after it has been synched to work manager, but when I try to open the video attachment there is an error 'invalid plugin'.

I'm trying to get an idea of how much effort an enhancement to support this would be.

Displaying Video

I can add a new screen set, copying from DocumentLinkViewPicture, to say DocumentLinkViewVideo.

But how do I define a new screen in Agentry with an embedded video object?

Is there a standard Agentry or OpenUi view that will handle an embedded video and let the user play it?

Or will I have to develop something in OpenUI?

Adding Video

Again is there a standard Agentry or OpenUi view that can capture video?

Or will I have to develop something in OpenUI?

Or is there another way of achieving this?

Thanks in advance,

Cathy

[bill_froelich · Accepted solution]

Cathy,

Yes, as you discovered we do not have any support for video capture in the Agentry client. You would need to develop something in OpenUI to capture the video to the documents directory. Then you should be able to select it as a document attachment. What platform are you using?

In terms of viewing existing videos, I would suggest first trying to see if opening it in the HTML control will play the video back. This should help determine if you will have to build a player or not using Open UI.

--Bill

[welshcathy · Accepted solution]

Hiya Bill,

Thanks for the quick and helpful reply!

I'm working on iOS.

Good idea about the HTML control - I was thinking about this too but wasn't sure how you'd grab the video itself but I assume the url would be available in the DocumentMetaData object, and if not I'd have to do some work in the backend to ensure it is there.

Cheers,

Cathy

[welshcathy]

OK I found the list of standard Agentry fields in the SAP Help

Agentry Language Reference / Module-Level User Interface Definitions Overview / Detail Screen Fields / Field Definitions With Edit Type-Specific Attributes

And no reference to video at all.

So I assume I'll have to develop something using OpenUI.

Any hints greatly appreciated 🙂