Information Availability via Object Links

Use

Various types of information arise from the business processes of a company. Due to the increasing importance of the use of information, this information should be available quickly and at the right place. However, this will only be the case if the insertion of data can be carried out simply, quickly and at the right time or if this can be done automatically by the system.

To fulfill these requirements, the Business Communication Interface (BCI) enables all send processes for a business object to be automatically linked to it. This link provides the following advantages for the applications:

• Access to all send processes from the application object

  The user can call the send processes of the application object via the system menu. Further generic object services are available in the system menu.

• Status Confirmation

• The format in which the document left the SAP system (for example, Postscript or PDF for faxes) is available.

Activities

In order to link an application object with a document, the key of its BOR object has to be transferred by the application. If this is done, the link is automatically created when the document is generated. For further information on this link service, see the documentation on BC - Object Links.