In order to configure communication between SAP and tia Scan please make sure to configure tia Scan within SAP as described here.
Open your SAP GUI and switch to the ArchiveLink: Application Maintenance (Transaction: OAA4).
SAP GUI with opened “ArchiveLink: Application Maintenance” / OAA4-Transaction and highlighted New-Button |
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Please define within this transaction a new Application named KGS_SCAN by pressing the New-button and filling out the opened form.
Filled form with Application “KGS_SCAN” |
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Confirm the entry to close the dialog.
Open the Windows SAPGUI: OLE automation-dialogue by double-clicking the new line.
Within this dialogue please open the function Archive from Fronted by double-clicking on it.
“Windows SAPGUI: OLE automation” with highlighted “Archive from Frontend”-dialogue |
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By double-clicking on the Archive from Frontend-function, you’ll be presented with a dialog, which allows you to define the command and its parameters.
Please make sure that the content of the Application-field is KGSOLEBRIDGE.SAPSCAN.
You may enter the parameters as described here:
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X | ScanDocument @URL,@DTI,@AID | ||
X | @EID=ScanDocumentRC |
After entering the necessary parameters you may close the modal by pressing the Back-button and after that store the changes by clicking the Floppy-Disk-symbol.
“Archive from Frontend”-modal | ||
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In case you wish to connect your KGS Scan client to a repository, please use the transaction OAC0 and double-click the desired repository.
OAC0-Screenshot of repository MH with highlighted “Protocol KGS_SCAN” | ||
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This screenshot shows the details of a content repository (in this example: MH). The active protocol is KGS_SCAN.
Please open the “ArchiveLink: Communications Interface Administration“ by entering the transaction OAA3 and double-click the selected protocol (in this example: KGS_SCAN).
Overview of the “ArchiveLink: Communications Interface Administration“ with highlighted protocol “KGS_SCAN” | ||
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Double-click the protocol in order to open the overview for the protocol dialogue “ArchiveLink Protocols: Overview of Protocol”.
Open within the protocol overview the frontend dialog by double-clicking the “Archive from frontend“-function.
“ArchiveLink Protocols: Overview of Protocol“-dialogue | ||
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Please double-click the document class you wish to connect (typically classes are TIF or PDF) and link it to the “KGS_SCAN“-application.
“Archive from frontend“-dialogue with chosen TIF-document class. | ||
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Dialogue to link a document class to an application | ||
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Please open now the transaction OAC2 in order to create the document type, to which the scanned documents will be allocated to.
Please note: It’s important to add a description, which will be shown in the selection window of SAP archive dialogs because no selection will be displayed unless a description has been defined.
After that go to the transaction OAC3 in order to link the previously defined document type to the desired SAP business object type as well as a content repository.
After performing these steps tia Scan is prepared for operation with the chosen content repository.
Hint: In order to utilize this scenario first open KGS Scan, select a corresponding profile and execute the OAWD-SAP-transaction.