Basic Customizing

Before you can use ArchiveLink, you need to perform the basic Customizing: In the Implementation Guide (IMG), choose the following:  SAP Web Application Server  Basis Services  ArchiveLink  Basic Customizing .

For more information on the activities, see the online documentation in the IMG. The following gives you an overview of the required steps:

• Maintaining Content Repositories

  Content repositories are logical units within a storage system. There can be more than one content repository, for example, for dividing the information content either thematically or physically.

• Maintaining Document Classes

  The document class is the technical format of a document type (for example PDF, ALF, DOC, and so on). It is used for maintaining the document type.

• Maintaining Document Types

  A document type groups similar documents together (for example: Incoming invoice without invoice verification). The document type influences the storage process, because some of the customizing settings are related to the document type. Each document must be assigned to a document type before it is stored, so that the correct processing for the document is triggered.

• Maintaining Links

  You link a document type to an object type, a content repository, and a link table. This has the following effect on documents of this document type: The documents can only be linked to instances of the specified business object type. The link entry is entered in the specified link table. The documents are always stored in the specified content repository.

  Note

  In the IMG, the activities Edit Document Types and Edit Links are carried out in the Customizing for the appropriate storage scenarios, because the document type plays a central role in Customizing for the storage scenarios.

  ArchiveLink supplies the Document Types Customizing Wizard for help when creating document types. This integrates the basic customizing steps Document Types and Links.

  For more information, see Document Types Customizing Wizard.