Display Original Application File with the Viewer 

Use

You can display original application files with the integrated viewer in the supported processing situations (for example, from the product structure or form the document info record).

See: Viewer for Displaying Original Application Files

Prerequisites

You have made the setting in Customizing of Document Management for the viewer of the SAP System.

You are in a processing situation that supports viewing the original application file in the integrated viewer.

See: Viewer for Displaying Original Application Files

Procedure

The following examples show you how to display an original application file in the different processing situations.

In all situation you can display the original application file by clicking on the button (Display original) or using the context menu (entry Display original).

Displaying Original Application File from the Product Structure

  1. Display the product structure in the Product Structure Browser.

See: Display Product Structure
  1. Explode the structure for documents.

You can see whether a document versions has one or more original application files assigned to it:
  1. Click on the icon Display original application file.

The number of maintained original application files determines later procedures:

Number of Original Application Files

Procedure

One

No further action required.
The original application file is displayed.

Several

You see a dialog box with a list.

The list contains the workstation application or display a short text for the original application file.

Select an original application file then choose Continue.

Displaying Original Application Files from the Document Info Record

  1. Display the document info record.

    2. On the tab page Document data or Originals all existing original application files are listed.

  2. Set your cursor on the line of the original application file you want to display. By double clicking on the original application file you start the viewer.

Result

The system checks the setting in Customizing of Document Management for the current frontend type (such as PC with operating system Microsoft Windows NT). Th system determines which viewer is appropriate for displaying the selected file format (for example *.ACD format for AutoCAD files calls a 2D viewer).

The viewer is started automatically and displays the data of the original application file in a new screen section.

The following example shows the redlining functions in addition to the viewer.