Desktop Office Integration
Purpose
You can use Desktop Office Integration to connect any application that supports OLE2 to your R/3 System. You can trigger office applications from the R/3 System and react to office application events.
Implementation considerations
The applications must support the OLE2 interface. The presentation servers must be running under Windows95 or Windows NT.
Integration
You should store documents on the
Business Document Server.Ensure that SAPgui is installed with all of its components (especially the OCX modules)
Features
Desktop Office Integration is an ABAP Objects interface that you can use to open, close, and control special desktop Office applications using the OLE2 interface. You can start the Office application either in a separate window or within the R/3 window.
You can store the documents in any way. For example, you can use the R/3 database, HTTP and FTP servers, or the local file system on your frontend. You address documents using URLs, and load them into the office application using a special data retrieval component.
You can react in the ABAP program to events that are triggered in the Office application. You can also import data from the R/3 System (fields, tables, pictures, RTF texts) into the document using links. You can ensure that everything in the document is up to date by updating the links.