Process

A document consists of the original image and management data, such as the person who created it, the date it was created, and the document type.

The management data of documents is managed in a database table in the SAP system, whereas images are saved implicitly or explicitly in a storage system.

The image of a document can be stored in any storage system using any interfaces. This means that the access to documents and the handling of images, such as display, copy, or delete, cannot be mapped within the program for each case. Therefore, handling takes place at runtime using a processor. Each application that loads documents to the DMS must therefore ensure that a processor is assigned to each document as soon as the image of the document exists in the system. The processor is effected by an ABAP class that must implement the interface IF_FKKDMS_DOCPROC. In the standard system, SAP provides processor CL_FKKDMS_DOCPROC_AL for images stored in SAP-CMS by SAP ArchiveLink.

You can link documents with application objects within the context of the Document Management Service. You can then display and handle these documents from within the application object.

The SAP system checks accesses to documents using the following authorization objects:

The authorization check takes place in function module FKKDMS_AUTHORITY_CHECK. You can add to this check at event 1383.