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The Service Provider for incoming post items is based on the Generic Service Provider as is the service provider for record plans, documents and so on. The restrictions on the service provider for incoming post items and the additional connection and context parameters for incoming post items are described in the following sections.

SP PPOID Parameters

The generic service provider supports a user-defined versions concept. The service provider for incoming post items does not support the versioning of incoming post items.

Connection Parameters

With the following Connection Parameters RULE_TYPE und DEFAULT_RULES, you can define generation rules for the automatic generation of incoming post indicators for each incoming post item element type.

If you only define one rule, this rule is used for generating the incoming post item.

If you define a number of rules, the user has to select a generation rule from the input help.

If you do not define these parameters, the user has to enter a rule element type first, and then a generation rule.

  • RULE_TYPE

    Using this parameter, you control whether a generation rule for document numbers (DOC) or a rule for incoming post indicators should be used. Select document numbers if the documents and the incoming post items should be numbered in sequence.

  • DEFAULT_RULES

    You enter the generation rule/rules that should be used here.

    The generation rules you want to define must be created in Customizing of Records and Case Management in the IMG activity Define Generation Rules. You can find more information on assigning generation rules in the implementation guide of Records and Case Management under Generation Rules.

    Note Note

    An incoming post item is automatically generated when an object, such as an e-mail or scanned document is received through the incoming post. Only one generation rule can be defined so that the incoming post indicator can be generated automatically. This rule cannot contain any dialog steps.

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Context Parameters

You can use the context parameter ATTRIBUTES to copy attributes from the incoming object to the incoming post item when you create an incoming post item.

The interface IF_RMPS_ATTRIBUTS is used for the copying. The method GET_INSTANCE obtains an instance of the interface in which the attributes can be copied using the methods SET_ATTRIBUTS and SET_TEMP_ATTR. The two methods retain data in different ways.

The copied attributes are saved in the incoming post item using the method SET_ATTRIBUT.

If you use the method SET_TEMP_ATTR, the attributes are only available temporarily and are not saved in the incoming post item.