Definition

A template that defines the appearance (layout) of a cover sheet document and uses symbols to access phrases from the SAP component Environment, Health and Safety and data from other SAP components.

When a cover sheet is generated as a document, the symbols are replaced by data from the SAP system.

You create cover sheets in the same way as report templates using a modified version of Microsoft Word ( Windows Wordprocessor Integration (WWI)) and various symbol types (see Report Template (SBV) ).

Cover sheets are always expanded completely in one generation run. There are no intermediate stages.

Use

Since cover sheet templates are always expanded completely as final cover sheets (there are no cover sheet bodies), the system only expands symbol types with an expansion time 20 (symbol value is application-dependent), see Expansion Time .

To be able to generate a cover sheet template, you must have carried out the following steps in the Report Shipping section in Customizing for Product Safety :