SAP ArchiveLink and Application Scenarios 

SAP ArchiveLink® is one of the integrated interfaces in the SAP Basis System that can be used to store all kinds of documents in external content servers.

SAP ArchiveLink therefore complements the existing range of SAP application software. For a detailed description of SAP ArchiveLink, see Introduction to SAP ArchiveLink.

The SAP application components, for example, SD, FI, HR and MM, support storing using SAP ArchiveLink by providing various application scenarios. Inbound documents, outbound documents, print lists, archive files, desktop files and binary files are supported.

How the inbound documents are entered in the system and forwarded for processing and storing depends on the storage scenario used. For information about the possible Storage Strategies , see the documentation SAP ArchiveLink.

This documentation describes the storage scenarios that are integrated in the SAP applications, for example, how Sales and Distribution (SD) documents can be stored in external storage systems using SAP ArchiveLink.

Archiving in databases using the ADK (Archive Development Kit) is not the same as storing using SAP ArchiveLink.
For informationen about data archiving using the ADK archiving transaction, see the documentation Archiving and Deleting Application Data.