Sending Externally from the SAP System 

Purpose

Certain settings are necessary in the relevant components to enable documents to be sent externally from the SAP System. The following information gives you an overview of the settings you need to make in SAPconnect, in the address management, and in the Business Workplace. Additional settings may be necessary for sending from an application. These are described in the relevant application documentation.

Process Flow

1. Customizing settings

Function

Description

Menu path / Transaction

Specifying the communication types

Check whether the communication type SAPconnect is set for all communication methods that offer the communications systems connected via SAPconnect.

SCOT, Settings ® Communication methods

Specifying conversion rules

SAP supplies conversion rules for the situation where the external communications systems and the SAP System support different formats. If additional conversions are necessary for your communications systems, you can add new conversion rules.

SCOT, Settings ® Conversion rules

Defining rules for recipient number adjustment

For more information, see Rules for Recipient Number Adjustment.

SCOT, Settings ® Country code, Country code exceptions or Recipient number change (incoming)

 

2. Settings for the RFC Connection

Function

Description

Menu path / Transaction

Creating an RFC User

For more information, see Creating RFC Users.

SU01

Creating RFC destination

For more information on RFC destinations, see the documentation BC - RFC Programming in ABAP.

SM59 or when creating the relevant node RFC destinations in SAPconnect administration.

 

3. Settings in SAPconnect

Function

Description

Menu path / Transaction

Creating node

For more information, see Nodes.

SCOT, View ® Node,

Maintaining inbound distribution

For more information, see Inbound Distribution.

SCOT, Settings ® Inbound distribution

Scheduling send processes

For more information, see Send Processes.

SCOT, View ® Jobs,

 

4. User settings

Function

Description

Menu path / Transaction

Maintaining addresses

SAP users can only send and receive in the communication methods for which they are assigned an address. If you have specified a standard domain for sending via the Internet, a sender address is created automatically when documents are sent using the communication method Internet for users to whom no Internet address is assigned. For more information on Addresses, see the documentation BC - Business Workplace.

SU01 or SO12,

Assigning send authorizations

Users require send authorizations. The authorization object S_OC_SEND and (as values) the allowed communication methods and the maximum number of recipients to which a user may address a message are assigned to you. The authorizations required for sending are, by default, contained in the role SAP_BC_SRV_GBT_USER for the end user of the Business Workplace.

SU01

 

5. Settings in the Business Workplace

Function

Description

Transaction

Checking send restrictions

In the Business Workplace shared office settings, you can activate send restrictions for sending from the Business Workplace interface. For example, you can allow internal sending only, or external sending only using the address management.

SO16