Link-Server Technology

Use

In Office integration, you can use link-server technology (LINK_SERV) to transfer data from the SAP system to an Office file:

The link server manages the fields in the SAP system that can be included in the Office application.

Note Note

Microsoft no longer supports the link server. Therefore, another technology called file properties is available.

End of the note.

Integration

You specify which data you want to be transferred from the SAP system to the Office file in Customizing for Document Management (CA-DMS ), by choosing Start of the navigation path General Data Next navigation step Define Workstation Application End of the navigation path . You can transfer document data, class data, texts, and user-defined file properties. This enables you to store file information in an Office document for organizational purposes and so that it can be easily found later on.

Prerequisites

  • The front-end computer’s operating system must be either Windows 95 or Windows NT. You process the links in the Office application by means of field functions. Therefore, activate the display of field functions in the Office application.

    For more detailed information, see Note 0181044.

  • If you want to use templates that were created in a previous release, you have to execute the conversion report DMS_TEMPLATES_CONVERT ( Template Conversion ).

  • You set up the LINK_SERV technology in Customizing for Document Management (CA-DMS) under Start of the navigation path General Data Next navigation step Define Workstation Application End of the navigation path . The link server is only started when you select the Export indicator in this activity.

Features

If you implement link-server technology , the system transfers the following link to a workstation application, for example, for the document number, during data transfer from DMS:

{LINK SAP OLELinkServer.ItemObject 1 SAPOLELinkServerDMSDocumentDRAW.DOKNR \a \t}