[469] in sapr3-soft
SAP & Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JPerry6788@aol.com (by way of SAP )
Sat Oct 4 15:47:13 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 4 Oct 1997 14:29:00 -0500
From: JPerry6788@aol.com (by way of SAP Moderator <JPerry6788@aol.com>)
I am currently working on an SAP account that will be linked to the internet.
SAP provides a tool called the SAP @ Web Studio which will create an HTML
page from any SAP screen. SAP has extended standard HTML to create HTML
Business. To create the SAP transaction, use screen painter ro develope your
initial transaction. Use subscreens to divide the screen and allow for more
modular coding. In HTML the subscreen is converted into HTML frames. You can
then update the screen a frame at a time without refreshing the entire
screen. Running SAP reports from the internet is even easier. Thier are many
BAPI's created to tie into your SAP module pool, you could also create your
own, (they are RFC's). The Studio tool also allows the creation of themes
that handle language conversions depending on the sign-on language of the
internet user. The ABAP language has also been extended to allow for mass
transport of the internal tables to HTML, by doing so you need not transport
a step-loop screen a page at a time but simply send the step-loop table !!
There are some drawbacks: Any selection field must have a table loaded with
possible selections prior to displaying the field on the HTML page; The menu
bar and standard menu do NOT transfer to HTML. We have also investigaed using
the JAVA GUI in place of the SAP GUI for certain applications....until we
discovered that the JAVA GUI is not yet available for production users (as of
10/3/97).
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