Importing MIME Data From the ITS Into SAP System

Use

If you are using Web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01 (or higher) or Netscape Navigator 3.01 (or higher), you can import MIME data into the SAP system, because they can handle the HTML tag

<input type=file>

This tag enables displays a file selection box that allows users to select a file from the local file system. However, the file does not need to be an HTML file - it may contain any arbitrary MIME data.

The selected MIME data is uploaded to the ITS. At PAI, the application retrieves information about the uploaded data. It can then upload some or all of the data to the SAP application server.

The following graphic shows how the ITS processes a request that imports MIME data from a Web browser to the SAP system:

1. For each HTML form field of input type file, the Web browser provides a file selection box. The user can then select a local file for upload to the ITS.

2. The ITS holds information about uploaded MIME data in the context. This allows the application to retrieve information about the data first and select what needs to be uploaded to the SAP application server.

3. The application uploads some or all of the MIME data held in the ITS context to the SAP application server.