Creating and Displaying Multimedia Documents 

Use

Multimedia objects that are to be displayed or executed via ERP E-Commerce must first be created in the ERP system and assigned to the product catalog. The Document Management System, which you can launch from the product catalog menu, is used for this purpose.

 

Procedure

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       1.      To carry out the activity, choose one of the following options:

SAP ERP	Create Document
Transaction code	CV01N
SAP Menu	Logistics ® Materials Management ® Product Catalog ® Environment ® Document Management ® Document ® Create

       2.      This transaction creates a document, that is, a link between a physical file on a specific server in the network and the SAP ERP system. Choose L01 as the document type and assign an original with the following entries:

Application	You can choose any name you like. For example, LIM or SIM
Original	Browse for data file, for example, *.jpg or *.gif

 

To display the multimedia documents you referenced with parameter Original in the Web shop you have to copy them manually to a Web server directory. The URL to this Web server directory has to be entered in the Extended Configuration Management (XCM) application in component webcatalog and parameter imageserver.

In the application this URL will be concatenated with the name of the original of the document attached to the product, to build the full URL for the html 'img' tag. There is no publishing mechanism to replicate images from SAP ERP to a Web server. The SAP ERP Document Management System (DMS) is only used to refer to the actual location of the images, that is to say, the names of the images are stored in DMS.

For example; for the  product P-100 there are two images available:

·         A large image called P-100l.jpg

·         A small image called P-100s.jpg.

Assuming that the images are located on a Web server with the URL <http://www.your-company.com/images> set the value of parameter to <imageserver> to <http://www.your-company.com/images>.Then use transaction CV01N in SAP ERP to create a new document of type L01 with two originals, that is the images mentioned above. The original for the large and small images has to be the same as you entered in the backend object config for the workstation application. For example if you chose SIM and LIM, you use the same here.

SAP delivers the following configuration fort he workstation application in the backend object config file:

param name= ‘SIM_ID’ value = ‘SIM’

param name= ‘LIM_ID’ value = ‘LIM’

You can change these values according to the entries you choose to make for the workstation application.

For the location of the original, just enter the file name, for example, P-100l.jpg for the LIM original and P-100s.jpg for the SIM original. Save the document and create the link from product P-100 to this document from within the catalog: To do this, double-click on the checkbox in the D column behind product P-100.