The Document Viewer can be displayed in the control Dialog Box Container. This can be integrated into an SAP screen, or you can incorporate it in the user interface of your application.

Displaying documents in the SAP screen has the following advantages:

• Document display can be directly integrated into the transaction where application documents are entered. Two areas are displayed on the screen: On one side, the input template for the application document, and on the other side, the document containing the data to be entered in the application document.
• The space in the Document Viewer normally reserved for menus and icons is also used for displaying the document.
• The documents are closed automatically when the user leaves the transaction.

You can decide whether document display is integrated into the application document transaction, or whether documents are displayed in a separate session. ArchiveLink provides methods for displaying in control.

If you do not implement display in control, the Document Viewer is always called in a new session. In this case, you can call the Document Viewer either in control or not. You make this selection in Customizing. Choose the following in the Implementation Guide (IMG): SAP Web Application Server ® Basis Services ® ArchiveLink ® Front End Communication Customizing ® Make Storage and Display Settings.