Online Business
Partner Information Service (Temporary Version) 
(Temporary Version)
Scope of Functions
Using Internet reporting for external business partners, you can provide your customers and vendors with display access to their own accounts via the Internet. You prepare this access in Customizing, and then offer simple access by including a URL on your homepage, or advising your business partners by e-mail.
The individual reporting functions are called Services. The following services are offered:
- Line item display (open items)
- Line item display (cleared items)
- Line item display (all items)
- Balance display
- Account balance display
Data security and protection
Your business partner logs on to the SAP System with a user-ID and password. He is only authorized to carry out the information services activated for him and only sees the data in the accounts assigned to him. The selection of data presented to him is carried out at field level by ALV layout variant.
The standard SAP System contains preconfigured services for the most important scenarios.
Effects on System Administration
The system administrator must create an R/3 user for the business partner.
Effects on Customizing
- Carry out the following activities in the Implementation Guide for Financial Accounting:
- Define Service Variants for the Selection of Line Items: Maintain report variants for RFITEMAR and RFITEMAP.
- Define layout variants for displaying line items: Maintain ALV variants. The layout variant is provided with the report selection variant.
- Assign accounts and services to the business partner Internet user in the activity Assign Accounts and Services to Users.
- Publish the links to the services on a webpage
or by e-mail.
Example
http://[ITS]/scripts/wgate/[Service]/!?~VARIANT=[Report variants] for line items.
Syntax for line items
http://<ITS-Server name>/<Path name>/<Name of Internet service>/!?VARIANT=<Variant name>