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Properties are settings used to control the basic configuration of the SAP Sourcing applications. Examples of properties are the hostname of the SMTP (mail gateway) server and the maximum size of attachments that can be uploaded by sell-side users.

Property settings are grouped by application area, with a special area reserved for system properties.

The primary storage for properties is in the database. These properties can be viewed and maintained through the application as defined below.

  • Some system properties are required during the system startup, before the connection to the database is established. These properties are stored in the fcisystem.properties file in the application config directory. These settings are viewed and maintained using normal text editors, but should only be modified as part of the installation process or with direct instruction from SAP Technical Support.

  • In many cases, multiple application servers operate against the same SAP Sourcing database. It may be necessary to override values for a property for a specific server. This is frequently the case in testing environments. The override settings for any property can be placed in the fcilocal.properties file in the application config directory.

  • Some properties are read-only. These are not modifiable through the software, and generally not documented here.

There are three scope levels for properties:

  • System properties affect the entire server or server cluster.

  • Enterprise properties affect the entire enterprise context.

  • Company properties affect a company's context.

Properties are, in general, maintained by choosing   Setup   Configuration   System Properties   . The set of properties that you can see or edit is controlled by the scope of your user account. If you login as the System user, you can edit system scoped properties; logging in at the Enterprise level, you will not see those properties.

The System Property List page displays the set of properties that have already been set. You can edit the system properties in the list and create new properties.

The following sections provide additional information for some system properties.

Mail Configuration System Properties

The following system properties are now available in the messaging set for controlling e-mail source information.

messaging.mail_source_policy

This property can be one of the following:

  • DEFER_TO_MAILTYPE: Set the reply-to address as specified by the mail type configuration. For details, see Mail Configurations.

  • SENDERS_COMPANY: Set the reply-to address to the sender's company. For sell-side users, this is the enterprise.

  • SPECIAL_ADDRESS: Set the reply-to address to any given e-mail, as specified by the messaging.force_reply_address system property.

The default is SENDERS_COMPANY.

To determine the rule used when setting these properties to DEFER_TO_MAILTYPE, open the appropriate mail message template (see Mail Message Templates). The Sender field identifies the rules used. If the sender value is Owner, the document owner is used. Otherwise, the Source E-mail attribute on the owner's company is used.

Account Activation System Property

By default, purchaser and supplier account activation use the same e-mail template. However, the system can be configured to use a separate template for purchasers and suppliers. To enable this, create the following system property and set its value to True:

system.mail.separate_purchaser_supplier_activation

After this is done, the Account Activation [Default] e-mail template which was previously used by both purchasers and suppliers will now only be used by purchasers, and the new Account Activation [Sell-Side] template will only be used by suppliers.

Rebranding System Properties

The following system properties allow an icon/image to replace the existing SAP Sourcing product logo for rebranding purposes:

system.brand_logo.buyside

system.brand_logo.sellside

RFx System Properties

The following system property determines whether users can create plain text RFx questions or big text questions (that is, questions that allow rich text characters in supplier responses).

rfx.questions.enable_rich_text_question

If the property is set to TRUE, users can create big text questions and cannot create plain text questions. Changing this property to plain text does not affect existing big text questions. When importing from a CSV file, the system property will determine whether big text or plain text questions are imported; that is, both Big Text and Plain Text values in the Question Type column will be interpreted in the same way, based on the system property.

Contract Generation System Properties

The following system property must be set to TRUE to enable Microsoft Word 2007 content controls in contract documents:

contractgen.contentcontrol.enabled

SAP ERP Integration System Properties

Note Note

The following information is relevant only if you integrate SAP Sourcing with SAP ERP. For more information, see Integration of SAP Sourcing and SAP ERP.

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The following system properties are available for controlling the integration of SAP Sourcing with SAP ERP. For information about how to integrate SAP Sourcing with SAP ERP, see the configuration guide on SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/eso.

  • is_sapint_installed

    This system property belongs to the set sapintegration. If this system property is set to TRUE, this SAP Sourcing enterprise is enabled for integration with SAP ERP.

  • odp.doc.integration.enable.suppliers_to_from_multi_external_system

    This system property belongs to the set odp.doc. If this system property is set to TRUE, this SAP Sourcing enterprise is enabled for integration of suppliers with multiple SAP ERP systems. If the system property is not set, suppliers can be integrated only with a single default SAP ERP system.

  • odp.doc.integration.external_system

    This system property belongs to the set odp.doc. In this system property, you specify the SAP ERP system that is to be the default integrated system. You choose this system from the SAP ERP system(s) that you defined as external systems in SAP Sourcing. For more information, see External Systems.

    If integration of suppliers with multiple SAP ERP systems is enabled, the default integrated system is used for business documents because business documents can be integrated only with a single SAP ERP system. If integration of suppliers with multiple SAP ERP systems is not enabled, all integration-related scenarios use this default integrated system.