Process documentation Settings in the SAP System for External Sending Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Purpose

To enable external sending in the SAP system, certain settings are necessary in the components involved. The graphic and information below give you an overview of the settings you need to make in SAPconnect, address management, and the Business Workplace. Additional settings may be necessary for sending from an application. These are described in the relevant application documentation.

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Process Flow

1. Customizing settings

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Specify communication methods

Check whether the communication method SAPCONNECT is set for all communication types that offer the communication systems connected using SAPconnect.

SCOT, Settings ® Communication Methods

Define rules for recipient number adjustment

For more information, see Structure link Rules for Recipient Number Adjustment.

SCOT, Settings ® Country code, Country code exceptions, or Recipient no. change (incoming)

 

2. Settings for the connection

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Create RFC user

For more information, see Structure link Creating an RFC User.

SU01

 

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Create RFC destination

For more information on Structure link RFC destinations, see the documentation on RFC programming in ABAP. These settings are only required for a connection using external communication systems, and not for a connection using the SMTP plug-in.

SM59 or when creating the relevant node RFC destinations in SAPconnect administration.

  

3. Settings in SAPconnect

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Create or adapt node

For more information, see Structure link Nodes.

SCOT, View ® Node

Maintain inbound distribution

For more information, see Structure link Inbound Distribution.

SCOT, Settings ® Inbound Distribution

Schedule send processes

For more information, see Structure link Send Processes.

SCOT, View ® Jobs,

 

4. User settings

Function

Description

Menu path/Transaction

Maintain address

SAP users can only send and receive in the communication types for which they are assigned an address. If you have specified a default domain for sending over the Internet, a sender address is created automatically when documents are sent using the communication type Internet for users to whom no Internet address is assigned. For more information on Structure link Addresses, see the documentation BC - Business Workplace.

SU01

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Assign send authorizations

Users require send authorizations. The authorization object S_OC_SEND as well as the permitted communication types and the maximum number of recipients to which a user may address a message are all assigned to them. The authorizations required for sending are contained by default in the role SAP_BC_SRV_GBT_USER for an end user of the Business Workplace.

SU01

 

5. Settings in the Business Workplace

Function

Description

Transaction

Check send restrictions

In the Business Workplace Structure link shared office settings, you can activate send restrictions for sending from the Workplace interface. For example, you can allow internal sending only, or external sending using address management only.

SO16

 

Caution

If you use SMTP as a communication type in SAP R/3 3.1 (“INT” in SAP R/3), refer to note 75430 in SAPNet.

Result

You have made the settings for the SAP Exchange Connector in the SAP system. You can now check the installation and test the settings.

There are various options for monitoring send processes during operation.

 

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