Archiving external pdf documents in IXOS

Question

Hi all,
I wrote an home made application to manage links between SAP and external systems. In this application I've a document number which corresponds to a pdf document I received on a windows file server.
I'm receiving hundreds of pdf documents per day from these external systems and I want to archive them in IXOS from an ABAP program.
I wrote a program to do this using these standard functions :
ARCHIV_CONNECTDEFINITION_GET          to get the archive parameters
ALINK_DOCUMENTS_CREATE_DIALOG    to upload the PDF file and send it to IXOS
ARCHIV_CONNECTION_INSERT                 to create the link in SAP
this works perfectly.... in forground.
The function ALINK_DOCUMENTS_CREATE_DIALOG does not work in background.
I absolutly need to create a job to do this archiving because I get about 2000 - 3000 documents per day
Does somebody have a solution for this ?
I looked around in this forum and in SAP but I didn' find a solution at the moment
Thank you

Answer 1

Hello,
As i understand with your question - You have to archive the incoming documents which are in PDF format and link it with SAP business document.
If so, then you can achieve by using OpenText Document Pipeline functionality.
Below are the steps need to be performed:
1. For each incoming document there should be control files which is essential for the IXOS job to archive and send the updates to the SAP
- You can refer to OpenText Document Pipeline for the attributes of control file
2. Schedule EXR3 job - agument the exchange directory - where your incoming document with control file are located
Pre-requisites are - ArchiveLink configuration should be defined in SAP.
In this way you can archive the incoming documents to link to SAP transaction data.
You can see the archived information in table TOA0* and also in respective SAP transaction data using GOS service you can display the document.
Hope this will help.
-Thanks,
Ajay