How to Send an Email to Outlook using process type in RSPC?

Question

Hi,
How to Send an Email to Outlook using process type in RSPC?
We created lot of process variants, actually we want to send an mail to users if the DP Background job was succesfully finished.
Actually i tried with create message its not happening...
Plz let me know .. its urgent ...
Regards,
Satish

Answer 1

Hello Satish,
If you want to send a friendly message to your users, then you can do this by building an ABAP program that calls function module SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1 . You can then insert this ABAP program in your process chain (using the ABAP program process type) or as a second step in your background job. With this technique, you can send an email to SAP users, or to external users (e..g Outlook email addresses)
Here's  a sample ABAP code:
  data: ls_docdata type SODOCCHGI1,
        lt_objcont type table of solisti1,
        lt_receivers type table of somlreci1,
        ls_objcont type solisti1,
        ls_receivers type somlreci1,
        ls_user type syuname.
* Fill these variables with subject and msg lines that you need.
data: MAIL_SUBJECT     TYPE STRING,
MSG_LINE1     TYPE STRING,
MSG_LINE2     TYPE STRING,
MSG_LINE3     TYPE STRING,
MSG_LINE4     TYPE STRING,
MSG_LINE5     TYPE STRING.
  ls_docdata-obj_descr = mail_subject.
  ls_objcont-line = msg_line1.
  append ls_objcont to lt_objcont.
  ls_objcont-line = msg_line2.
  append ls_objcont to lt_objcont.
  ls_objcont-line = msg_line3.
  append ls_objcont to lt_objcont.
  ls_objcont-line = msg_line4.
  append ls_objcont to lt_objcont.
  ls_objcont-line = msg_line5.
  append ls_objcont to lt_objcont.
* t_userlist contains the list of users to whom th email will be sent.
  loop at t_userlist into ls_user.
    ls_receivers-receiver = ls_user.
"Change the type  here if email is for outlook users, See documentation
" of function module in SE37
    ls_receivers-rec_type = 'B'.            
    ls_receivers-express = 'X'.
    append ls_receivers to lt_receivers.
  endloop.
  CALL FUNCTION 'SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1'
    EXPORTING
      document_data                   = ls_docdata
    tables
     OBJECT_CONTENT                   = lt_objcont
     receivers                        = lt_receivers
   EXCEPTIONS
     TOO_MANY_RECEIVERS               = 1
     DOCUMENT_NOT_SENT                = 2
     DOCUMENT_TYPE_NOT_EXIST          = 3
     OPERATION_NO_AUTHORIZATION       = 4
     PARAMETER_ERROR                  = 5
     X_ERROR                          = 6
     ENQUEUE_ERROR                    = 7
     OTHERS                           = 8
You can test out the function module first in SE37 (just put the name of the FM and click execute). Testing it in SE37 will help you get your parameters right.
Hope this helps.