Hazards in Offline Processing (SAP Library - SAP MAPI Service Provider (BC-SRV-GBT))

Hazards in Offline Processing

As the R/3 server and the MAPI client cannot "speak with one another", they can exclude settings from one another which leads to errors when switching to online mode. Such errors are for example:

A work item has been reserved or executed both in the R/3 server as well as in the client.

You can avoid this error by only loading work items onto your PC in download options that you have already reserved.

The work item may not be forwarded to the agent specified by you because the agent does not belong to the possible agents of the corresponding task and the task does not permit any general forwarding.
An agent to whom you wish to forward the work item no longer exists in the R/3 System.
A document has been changed or executed both in the R/3 server as well as by you locally in the client. The changes in client are lost when switching to online mode.

Your local changes are saved in the client trash. From there you can incorporate the modifiable document after the switch to the online mode. Something similar can occur in online mode if a document is changed at the same time in the server and in the client. Also see problem 4 in the section Trouble-Shooting.