External Processing by Participants (SAP Library - Collaborative Engineering & Project Management (CEP))

External Processing by Participants

Purpose

The owner of the CEP process has provided you with one or more folders for processing, and informed you by e-mail. After you have logged on to the Internet server for R/3, as a participant in the CEP process you can now download the available folder objects (such as documents and materials) to your local PC. You can edit these objects locally and offline, and then return them to the owner.

Prerequisites

The following system requirements must be met:

Internet Explorer version 4.0 or higher (for Windows 95/98 and NT)
For editing documents, spreadsheets, and so on: Microsoft Office

Process Flow

On the participant side, the editing process is as follows:

After you have logged on to the Internet server using the URL, you see an overview of all the folders that you can edit or view. You select a folder and download it to you local PC. See Downloading a Folder to a Local PC

You can now log off from the Internet Server and start local processing.

You can change documents in the following ways:

Creating/Deleting Documents

Assigning Original Application Files / Deleting Assignments

Assigning Documents to an Object

Redlining Functions

To return the changed folder to the owner, you must log on to the Internet server again.

Result

The owner is automatically informed by e-mail when you return changed folder objects. If you are working in a cooperation scenario, the other participants are also informed.