tia® Viewer Core and kgs Viewer Pack for SAP are required to display documents archived in a content server from within SAP.
The communication with the content server is ArchiveLink. For more information to tia® Content Server Core ArchiveLink see tia® Content Server ArchiveLink (tC). Each tia® Viewer Core container started works with one content server.
When creation of annotations and notes to documents viewed are activated, the tia® Viewer requires access to SAP via ABAP REST interface. The annotations will be stored with the document in the content server.
Following configurations are supported:
SAP-side customized tia® Viewer Core
In this configuration, the kgs Viewer Pack communicate to the tia Viewer with using a token containing encoded query for to retrieve the document of the content server.
SAP-side configuration (transaction /KGS1/VIEWER_CUST) contains the instance information and other customizing: In the tia® Viewer Core a repository-instance-mapping is not required respective ignored.
Content Server Viewer (CSV)
In this scenario, the kgs Viewer Pack communicate to the tia® Viewer Core with using ArchiveLink, which retrieves the document from content server via ArchiveLink get-commands..
In this scenario, the repository-instance-mapping in tia® Viewer Core configuration is applied. If it is not explicitly configured, the setting for the instance default are applied .