Configuring an HTTP Content Server for Documents in the Business Workplace  

Purpose

A class must be created for documents so that they can be stored by the SAP Knowledge Provider. The class SOFFPHIO is assigned to the documents in the Business Workplace in the SAP Knowledge Provider. Storage categories with content repositories are assigned to this class. The content repositories contain the connection data for the relevant storage system, therefore either for the R/3 database or for the HTTP Content Server.

As shown in the graphic, the storage category SOFFDB is assigned by default to the class SOFFPHIO, meaning that the documents are stored in the R/3 database. If you connect an external HTTP Content Server to the SAP Knowledge Provider, you have to make settings so that documents in the Business Workplace can be stored on the external server.

Process Flow

Process Flow

Procedure

  1. Create a content repository for the connection to the external content server.
  1. In the R/3 Implementation Guide (transaction SPRO), choose Basis ® Basis /Services ® SAP Knowledge Provider ® Content Management Service ® Maintain Content Repository .
  2. Create a content repository, containing the connection data for your content server, for the storage type HTTP. To do this, proceed as described in Maintaining Content Repositories.
  1. Assign the content repository created to the storage category SOFFHTTP.
  1. In the Implementation Guide (transaction SPRO), choose Basis ® Basis /Services ® SAP Knowledge Provider ® Content Management Service ® Maintain storage categories .
  2. Select the entry SOFFHTTP by double-clicking on it.
  3. In the field Content Rep., specify the name of the content repository that you created for your HTTP content server, for example ZHTTP.
  4. Choose .
  1. Assign the storage category SOFFHTTP to the class SOFFPHIO as the standard.
  1. Choose transaction SKPR08.
  2. The memory category SOFFDB is specified for the class SOFFPHIO. In the field Memory category, enter SOFFHTTP.
  3. Choose .

For further information, see Concepts.

Result

After you have made the settings, PC documents and binary documents that have been created in the Business Workplace are stored on the configured content server. The documents that were stored in the Business Workplace before this time remain on the R/3 database. (Therefore the connection to this, the storage category SOFFDB, cannot be changed or deleted.)