Object documentationCover Sheet Template (DBV)

 

A template that defines the appearance (layout) of a cover sheet document and uses symbols to access phrases from the SAP component Environment, Health and Safety and data from other SAP components.

When a cover sheet is generated as a document, the symbols are replaced by data from the SAP system.

You create cover sheets in the same way as report templates using a modified version of Microsoft Word Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI)) and various symbol types (see Report Template).

Cover sheets are always expanded completely in one generation run. There are no intermediate stages.

 

Since cover sheet templates are always expanded completely as final cover sheets (there are no cover sheet bodies), the system only expands symbol types with an expansion time 20 (symbol value is application-dependent), see Expansion Time.

To be able to generate a cover sheet template, you must have carried out the following steps in the Report Shipping section in Customizing for Product Safety:

  • In the Customizing activity Specify Shipping Reasons, select the cover sheet indicator.

  • In the Customizing activity Assign Templates: Cover Sheets/Acknowledgements of Receipt, make the assignments as required.

Note Note

  • Since a cover sheet can be used for more than one report, the parameters of the report are not transferred for generating the cover sheets. This means that for generating the cover sheets, only the recipient is known, and therefore no other data from the reports can be output on the cover sheets.

  • To allow you to use the cover sheet template for a material safety data sheet for all recipient countries or for each standard address format, the report symbols of the report symbol group 06X Address Data for Cover Sheet are available. This means you do not have to create a new cover sheet template for the material safety data sheet for each recipient country or for each standard address format. These report symbols are used to output the addresses according to the standard address format in the recipient's country, in an address block comprising of up to nine address lines.

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