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.
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 Rules for Recipient Number Adjustment. |
SCOT, Settings ® Country code, Country code exceptions, or Recipient no. change (incoming) |
Function |
Description |
Menu path/Transaction |
Create RFC user |
For more information, see Creating an RFC User. |
SU01 |
Function |
Description |
Menu path/Transaction |
Create RFC destination |
For more information on 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. |
Function |
Description |
Menu path/Transaction |
Create or adapt node |
For more information, see Nodes. |
SCOT, View ® Node |
Maintain inbound distribution |
For more information, see Inbound Distribution. |
SCOT, Settings ® Inbound Distribution |
Schedule send processes |
For more information, see Send Processes. |
SCOT, View ® Jobs, |
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 Addresses, see the documentation BC - Business Workplace. |
SU01 SO12, |
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 |
Function |
Description |
Transaction |
Check send restrictions |
In the Business Workplace 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 |
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.
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.