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Process documentation External Sending in the SAP System  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

Certain settings are necessary in the relevant components to enable external sending in the SAP System. The following information gives you an overview of the settings you need to make in SAPconnect, in address management, and in the Business Workplace. Additional settings may be necessary for sending from an application. These are described in the relevant application documentation.

Process Flow

1. Customizing settings

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Specify communication types

Check whether the communication type SAPconnect is set for all communication methods that offer the communication systems connected using SAPconnect.

SCOT, Settings ® Communication methods

Define rules for recipient number adjustment

For more information, see Rules for Recipient Number Adjustment.

SCOT, Settings ® Country code, Country code exceptions, or Recipient no. change (incoming)

 

2. Settings for the connection

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Create RFC user

For more information, see Creating an RFC User.

SU01

 

These settings are only required for the connection using external communication systems, and not for the connection using the SMTP plug-in.

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Create RFC destination

For more information on RFC destinations, see the documentation BC - RFC Programming in ABAP.

SM59 or, when creating the relevant node, RFC destinations in SAPconnect administration.

 

These settings are only required for the connection using the SMTP plug-in, and not for the connection using external communication systems.

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Set SMTP plug-in

For more information, see The SMTP Plug-In.

  

Create ICF service

For more information, see Creating Services for the SMTP Plug-In.

SICF

 

3. Settings in SAPconnect

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Create or change node

For more information, see Nodes.

SCOT, View ® Node

Maintain inbound distribution

For more information, see Inbound Distribution.

SCOT, Settings ® Inbound distribution

Schedule send processes

For more information, see Send Processes.

SCOT, View ® Jobs, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

 

4. User settings

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Maintain address

SAP users can only send and receive in the communication methods for which they are assigned an address. If you have specified a default domain for sending over the Internet, a sender address is created automatically when documents are sent using the communication method Internet for users to whom no Internet address is assigned. For more information on Addresses, see the documentation BC - Business Workplace.

SU01 or SO12, This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

Assign send authorizations

Users require send authorizations. The authorization object S_OC_SEND and (as values) the permitted communication methods and the maximum number of recipients to which a user may address a message are assigned to you. The authorizations required for sending are, by default, contained in the role SAP_BC_SRV_GBT_USER for the end user of the Business Workplace.

SU01

 

5. Settings in the Business Workplace

Function

Description

Transaction

Check send restrictions

In the Business Workplace shared office settings, you can activate send restrictions for sending from the Workplace interface. For example, you can allow internal sending only, or external sending only using address management.

SO16