External
Processing by Participants 
Purpose
The owner of the CEP process has provided you with one or more folders for processing, and informed you by e-mail. After you have logged on to the Internet server for the SAP system, as a participant in the CEP process you can now download the available folder objects (such as documents and materials) to your local PC. You can edit these objects locally and offline, and then return them to the owner.
Prerequisites
The following system requirements must be met:
· Internet Explorer version 4.0 or higher (for Windows 95/98 and NT)
· For editing documents, spreadsheets, and so on: Microsoft Office
Process Flow
On the participant side, the editing process is as follows:
· After you have logged on to the Internet server using the URL, you see an overview of all the folders that you can edit or view. You select a folder and download it to you local PC. See Downloading a Folder to a Local PC
· You can now log off from the Internet Server and start local processing.
You can change documents in the following ways:
Assigning Original Application Files / Deleting Assignments
Assigning Documents to an Object
· To return the changed folder to the owner, you must log on to the Internet server again.
Result
The owner is automatically informed by e-mail when you return changed folder objects. If you are working in a cooperation scenario, the other participants are also informed.