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 Linking Documents to SAP Objects

Prerequisites

In Customizing for the Document Management System, at least one SAP object (for example, material master record) is defined for links to the document type.

Procedure

  1. On the Basic data screen, choose the tab page Object links.

    You now see a tab page with linked objects. The tab pages for the objects are dynamically determined based on the settings of the document type.

    For example, when object links are set for the document type DRW objects material, change number and customer a tab page appears for each of these objects.

    Note Note

    The short text for the object is displayed if no object allocation exists. As soon as one object link exists the short text is enhanced with the addition of the icon (Links exist) .

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  2. You enter key data for the objects by selecting the appropriate tab page such as, Document info record ).

  3. Enter the identifying data for the SAP object.

    For a document info record, for example, you enter the document number, document type, document part, and document version. For a material, you enter the material number.

  4. Confirm your entries.

    The system checks whether the object exists and displays the description from the object master.

  5. If you want to make object links to other SAP objects choose the appropriate tab page such as customer.

Result

When you save the document info record, the object link is saved. When at least one object link exists is indicated with the (Links exist) icon.