Editing Documents (SAP Library - Business Document Service (BC-SRV-BDS))

Editing Documents

Use

With this function you can edit documents created and stored in the Business Document Navigator.

Note

You cannot edit a pure SAP ArchiveLink document.

This function is used for documents that can be edited with Desktop Office Integration.

You can:

Overwrite the current document
Create a new document
Create a new version (content version) or variant (language variant)

Prerequisites

The MIME type of the document to be edited belongs to an application that is supported by SAP Desktop Office Integration. See also BC - Desktop Office Integration.

Features

If the function Edit document is called for a selected document, the relevant application is started in the GUI and the document can be edited further. When you save the document, the following four functions are available:

Store the edited document as a new document
Overwrite the stored document with the current document
Create a new content version for the current version
Create a new language variant for the current version

In all four cases you can change the descriptive text and the keywords.

Note

As of Release 4.6C, documents are locked when changes are being made. This prevents parallel editing of documents.

Activities

Select a document that you want to edit and choose Edit document in the symbol toolbar.