Starting and Closing WWI 

Prerequisites

Document templates whose layout you want to process in Windows Wordprocess Integration (WWI) may not have status RE (released). If the templates do have this status, reset the status in the hit list for document templates by choosing Report Template ® Reset status.

Procedure

  1. From the Product Safety screen, choose Reports ® Edit templates ® Report template or Cover sheet template or Acknowledgement of receipt template.

    2. The initial screen appears.

  2. Enter your search criteria (see: Searching for Document Templates).
  3. Choose (Document)template ® Navigation area ® Hit list. If the R/3 System finds reports that correspond to your search criteria, the hit list appears.
  4. To start WWI, choose Goto ® Document in one of the following screens.

In the hit list, select the document template for which you want to start WWI.

Document templates that have been processed in WWI have the status IP (In processing on work station) and cannot be called for processing in WWI again.

If you are already editing one report template on a frontend, a lock prevents you from editing further report templates on the same frontend. If you were editing a report template using WWI, and the RFC connection was interrupted, you must unlock the frontend so that you can once again call the report template for editing. You can use the R/3 System to remove the lock by choosing Utilities ® Frontend in the report template hit list. However, you should first make sure that no templates are being edited on the frontend.

Word is called with a document in which you can process your document template.

See also: Maintaining Document Template Layouts
  1. To return to the R/3 System and make the changes, choose WWI ® Check template in WWI. Correct any errors that occurred.
  2. Choose File ® Back to R/3 and Save.

The system closes Word and takes you back to R/3. The report template and the symbol structure you defined are saved in the R/3 database.

On return to the R/3 System, you always enter the hit list for document templates.

  1. The template is assigned a status according to how you return from WWI:

Procedure

Resulting status

You have checked the template and have returned with save to the R/3 System.

Status IW (In work)

You have not checked the template, and have returned with save to the R/3 System.

Status UN (unknown)

The WWI start fails.

Up to and including EH&S release 2.2A, you must close the R/3 Windows Server dialog box manually.

Status SE (system error)

 

Result

After you have created the layout for your report template, and allocated the report template to a generation variant, you can simulate a report from the report template in substance management (see: Testing Layouts).

To release the document template, select it in the hit list and choose (Document) template ® Release. You can then use the document template to generate reports (see: Report Management).