External catalog set-up

Hello everyone,
can anyone let me know what are the steps the vendor needs to do to put the information on theire website in proper way such that when the URL is accessed from our SRM system, required data(product catagory,UOM,supplier ID etc) gets transferred to our SRM system.
can anyone send me the detailed documentation about External catalog setup ?
Thanks in advance.

Hi
<b>Please go through the following links -></b>
External Catalog Call Structures
Re: OCI External Catalog and Shopping Cart Mapping
creating a catalog
Catalog Mgmt
SAP R/3 MM and Electronic external Catalog
Regards
- Atul

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Problem in External catalog set up

HI Experts,
i have SRM5.0. and i i have this link form the customer http://www.bechtle.fr/shop/MasterServlet?SSID=BIOS_FR&LANG=fr&SSID_ORIGINATOR=BD_FR&SHOPKEEPER=HD_FR
i have set up a external catalog as mentioned below but the problem is when i click on the catalog ID in SC.it opens the webpage of customer but it asks for the details like Client number,user name,password
1                              http://www.bechtle.fr/shop/MasterServlet?SSID=BIOS_FR&LANG=fr&SSID_ORIGINATOR=BD_FR&SHOPKEEPER=HD_FR     0 URL
30     USERNAME     Europe     2 Fixed Value
40     PASSWORD     Europe     2 Fixed Value
60     HOOK_URL                           4 Return URL
70     ~OkCode     ADDI     2 Fixed Value
80     ~target     _top     2 Fixed Value
90     ~caller     CTLG     2 Fixed Value
Can you tell me if there are some errors here
regards
subbu
Edited by: subbuSRM on Sep 21, 2009 1:32 PM

Hi,
When we select the external catalog it opens the webpage of customer but we need to enter the Customer number , user name and password.
My doubt here is how to set up the parameter value in Webservice ID for customer number(9000361662
) so that system considers this as default and login directly in to client URL without asking any details.
please help me out in this.What went wrong in my catalog set up ID
regards
subbu

XSRF error when returning to SRM from external catalog

Hello,
We recently applied support package stack 19 to our SRM 5.0 development system, and after doing so found that some of our configured catalogs began producing an XSRF error when attempting to populate the SRM shopping cart with items from the catalog. The symptoms encountered are practically identical with those described in Note 1615697 ("Return to SRM application from Catalogs result in Dump"). This error did not occur prior to applying support packages.
In an effort to resolve the problem, we applied the following Notes that described the same or similar symptoms:
1551982: Cross Site Request Forgery Protection for stateless BSP
1596088: frequent dumps in ITS services
1607780: Update #5 to security note 1522651
1613427: ITS Services lead to XSRF Dumps
1615697: Return to SRM application from Catalogs result in Dump
1619323: Frequent Dump issue in ITS
1621525: Dump in Vendor list service
1629031: BBP_BACKGROUND_APPROVAL service results in dump
1632110: Quotation search help fields results in a Dump
1634612: Frequent Dump issue in ITS in Search screens
1650207: BBP_POC service results in XSRF dump
1658516: Applets sheitern an XSRF-Schutz (COOKIE_NOT_FOUND)
1675491: ITS: CALL BROWSER and termination of a session
This did result in some of our catalogs working that previously were dumping, but we are still having issues with at least two and possibly other catalogs. These are external vendor catalogs using the OCI interface.
The error occurs at the time of transmitting items from the catalog back into the SRM shopping cart. The catalog screen is replaced with an error screen with the messages "The URL https://<<our SRM dev system>>:/sap/bc/gui/sap/its/bbpsc03/ was not called due to an error" and "A:ITS_P:019 XSRF no sec_sesstoken". The shopping cart in the SRM system is lost after this error occurs. No short dump is recorded, but the SM21 system log records the ITS_P 019 error against tcode BBPSC03, program SAPLBBP_SC_UI_ITS.
Most of our catalogs, internal and external, are fine after applying the Notes. Just two external vendor catalogs still exhibit this error.
I experimented with adding a new parameter after the Return URL in the catalog configuration in SPRO with name = ~SAP_SESSTOKEN, value = `SAP_SESSTOKEN`, and type = SAP Field, based upon Note 1481392, but this did not make any change in the behavior.
I have patched the kernel (7.00) to pl335 (pl310 is delivered with sps19).
Anyone else having this sort of issue?
Best regards,
Matt

Hi,
What is the error/message you are getting?Please xplain in detail.
Also see these related threads for more pointers:
External Catalog gives HTTP 404 not found error on return
External catalog set-up
External Catalog integration with SAP
Re: OCI External Catalog and Shopping Cart Mapping
Help - Error while transferring item to shopping cart from external catalog
BR,
Disha.
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External catalog specifications for SAP E-commerce 5.0

Hi Experts,
We want to integrate external catalog ( which is custom deveponed by our client.). Using OCI interface we want to use this custom based catalog, in place of SAP ISA TREX based catalog. In ISA settings I just see that I need to define the url for the external catalog. BUT this external catalog should confirm to certain rules, Please can someone guide me, what are these set of rules?
Please help, as this is a very critical bottle neck for our project.
Thanks in advance,
Dipender Singh

Hi Dipender,
The catalog must be OCI compliant in order o use it in conjunction with the SRM Server, compliance in a nutshell means that it will transmit it's return data in the format expected by SRM, the HOOK_URL will contain all the necessary parameters to transmit the HTML data into an expected an readable format for ICI INterface.
For more details please read the attached OCI Config doc.
Regards,
Jason

Open Catalog Interface (OCI) - Is CRM/ISA ready to be an External Catalog?

I have found much information here and on help.sap.com talking about how to set up an external catalog to be part of our catalog(s). But, there is a severe lack of information to educate myself as to whether our catalog(s) are ready to be added as an external catalog to our customer's SRM system for example.
The only valuable information I have been able to find on how to be sure that our CRM/ISA Partnershop can be used by our business partners in their various (SRM) procurement systems is here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm40sr1/helpdata/en/73/fd147fcaaf41489508aaac8e3e37b5/frameset.htm
We have a specific request that our CRM/ISA Partnershop be made available via our business partner's SRM system. I can find no guide to help me provide the requested information without basically just guessing on my part.
This is what they provided as a worksheet to return.
I assume the following or would like additional input:
1) They will need a Userid and Password.
2) For Language, we currently only support EN. Would I enter EN or just leave blank?
3) What do the following refer to? (These are the fields as requested and their suggested value by our customer)
~OKCODE       ADDI
~TARGET       _top
~FORCETARGET       YES
~CALLER       CTLG
HOOK_URL       (Assumed to be blank)
4) These are the required OCI fields they would be expecting from the our catalog, but they can accept all OCI Release 4.0 fields...Assuming the connections from the above settings are made properly, will CRM automatically provide the approrpriate detail or do I need to set something somewhere? All the XCM/DCM config settings for OCI seem to deal with an incoming External Catalog, not outgoing.
OCI fields
<input type='hidden' name='NEW_ITEM-QUANTITY[1]' value='3'>
<input type='hidden' name='NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]' value='Descriptio'>
<input type='hidden' name='NEW_ITEM-UNIT[1]' value='DZN'>
<input type='hidden' name='NEW_ITEM-PRICE[1]' value='1.62'>
<input type='hidden' name='NEW_ITEM-LEADTIME[1]' value='5'>
<input type='hidden' name='NEW_ITEM-CURRENCY[1]' value='USD'>
<input type='hidden' name='NEW_ITEM-MATGROUP[1]' value='44121704'>
5) Do I need to 'do' anything not listed above to be sure our catalog(s) are ready to perform as requested?
Thanks for any clarification/links, etc
I've spent weeks off and on now to try to determine an answer I could feel confident in.

1/25/07 - Found a bit more info, but still need help determining if there are any additional settings/configs we need to make before starting to test with our Business Partner.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_crm40sr1/helpdata/en/19/3a74482f5811d5b3890050da4cccf0/frameset.htm
I did these steps already, but have not tested yet:
Customizing and Settings in CRM / Internet Sales
Settings for receiving purchase orders in CRM
Purchase order without reference to a quotation:
In the CRM Business Connector, an XML purchase order is received via HTTP and it is converted into a sales order IDOC. This IDOC is then transferred to CRM and is posted there.
The delivered mapping service expects a purchase order in the OLD_EBP XML format, which is transformed into a NEW EBP XML, xCBL and finally a CRM IDOC XML.
The following settings must be made in CRM:
· Creating a partner profile for the sender
Path in SAP Menu
Tools -> Business Communication -> IDoc-Basis -> Administration -> Partner profile.
Partner type: Customer
Partner number: Number of the sold-to party in CRM
Transaction code: APLI (Individual IDoc processing)
Message type: CRMXIF_ORDER_SAVE_M
(key fields of table EDPP1:
-PARNUM partner number
-PARTYP partner type)
·         To view CRM address management errors in the document, the parameter CRM_USER_LEVEL must be set to value 9.
Path in SAP Menu
System -> User profile -> Own data -> Parameters.
I have asked my Basis contact to look into this portion:
Business Connector
Install a Business Connector 4.0 or higher.
Required packages:
· Sap_crm
· Sap_crm_customizing
· XSLT (only for BC 4.0, not required for BC 4.6)
After processing the purchase order that was received first, an inactive routing rule is created that is completed and activated.
Path in BC
BC Manager -> Adapters -> Routing -> Edit.
Transport: ALE (R/3 IDoc)
SAP Destination:
The ports must be activated and the service EbpXmlToRfc must be accessible before the Business Connector can receive documents.
Some CRM settings are hard coded in the transformations. They are in the file BasicOrderSettings.xsl, that are in the directory ...ServerpackagesSap_crmxsltincludesxcbl2sapcrm_xif.
These are:
Transaction type: TA (standard order)
Item object type: BUS2000131(sales item CRM)
Text ID under which the order text is created in the CRM order: 1000 (customer note)
Make sure that all of the available Business Connector patches are installed.
Our customer contact says they went with WebMethod instead of Business Connector, but I'm hoping we can make it work using BC without having to research yet another piece of the puzzle.
Any additional detail/advice from anyone that's set up their Partnershop to be connected to SRM EBP via OCI?
Message was edited by:
        Mike Anecito
    1/25/07

External Catalogs Business partner

hi experts!
would just like to verify if Business Partner number set in the call structure is used by SRM only if no vendor number is received from the external catalog.. if there is a vendor number in the catalog coming from the vendor side, business partner in the SRM configuration is not the one being used, right? is there a way where i could by pass the vendor coming from the vendor's catalog?

Hi,
If you wish to ignore the Supplier coming from the catalog you can use the Badi BBP_CATALOG_TRANSFER to clear this field if populated, as far as I know the partner data from catalog is preffered and is determined in FORM CREATE_PARTNERSETS:
then create th partnerset for the vendor
no vendordata at all - leave (no error)
IF iv_cat_entity_vendor IS INITIAL AND <<   From call structure
     iv_oci_item_data_vendor IS INITIAL OR <<   From catalog
     NOT iv_ignore_partnerdata IS INITIAL.
    RETURN.
ENDIF.
conversion stuff
IF NOT iv_oci_item_data_vendor IS INITIAL.
    lv_conv_eingabe = iv_oci_item_data_vendor.
ELSE.
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Regards,
Jason

External Catalog Call Structures

We are on SRM 4.0 and integrated ITS. We are using the standard call structure for external catalogs which opens in a new window. However, this is causing grief with our users because they tend to stay in the catalogs too long and eventually timeout of SRM. Our current timeout is set to 30 minutes. Therefore, when they go to the catalogs, SRM sits idle. When they checkout of the catalog to bring the items over into SRM, they will get a timeout message.
I would like to have the catalog open in the same window as SRM. I understand this is done through integrated call structure.
However, when I select my items from the catalog and check out, I'm not brought back into my shopping cart. Another window opens with the look of external ITS.
Is there something I need to do with the call structure so that the items are added back to my shopping cart?
Are there other options so that users do not timeout of SRM? If SRM is sitting idle, can a message popup letting the user know their session will timeout soon unless they check out of the catalogs?

Hi Monique,
Last document i have in for ebp 3.0 !
It is a configuration guide for setting up inframe catalogue.
Extract :
Prerequisites
You have:
installed an SAP Markets Enterprise Buyer Professional Edition 3.0 system
installed the Requisite catalog (BugsEye 3.0)
installed a Java Runtime Environment (for example Java 2 SDK Standard
Edition)
installed a servlet engine
Activities
Checking BugsEye_Config
Copying of the WAR (Web Archive) file
Deployment of the Application
Changing the WEB.XML
Defining the Internal Call Structure in EBP
I can send you the document.
However i do not know if it is still compliant...
Kind regards,
Yann

Change Purchase Orders not to be send to external catalog vendors via XI

We are working on SRM 5.00
When ever we create Purchase Orders from External Catalog a mail goes to the vendor via XI in XML language.
That is fine. However when we change any thing on the Purchase Order a again mail goes to vendor.
Our requirement is to send the Purchase Order only when they are created and not when they are changed.
How do we manage this in SRM.
Will badi ZBP_SAPXML1_OUT_BADI help us
thanks

Hi,
See these related notes:
Note 881650 - Duplicate transfer/output of the purchase order
Note 1015245 - Changing PO fields which are set as E generates new output
Note 659386 - PO output in case of customer field changes
BR,
Disha.
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External Catalog integration & maintenance in ISA.

Hello experts,
Could any one of you tell me the process of external catalog integration & maintenace in CRM 4.0 ISA along with the process of configurations..
Thanks in advance
cheers
vamsi

hi,
SAP standard supports external catalog integration for B2B scenario,not for B2C scenario.For external catalog integation the product id of external system should match with CRM product master.External catalog integration is done through OCI(open catalog interface).For OCI u have to maintain setting in XCM of B2B.
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Settings for external catalog

Dear experts,
we are trying to set up an external catalog in order for a specific customer to be able to place orders through his SRM system.
Searching, i found out that the settings that need to be done from the SRM side are the following:
First step is to setup the OCI Catalog connectivity. In order to do this the SRM side will need to setup the following parameters:
URL= http://[hostname]:[port]/[application-name]/b2b/init.do?shop=shopname&forward=ocireceive
~OKCODE ADDI
~TARGET _top
~FORCETARGET YES
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Hi,
I'm testing the validate function on an external catalogue (SRM 5) and am retrieving the following error just after the post URL which btw looks correct.
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I'm new to this so all input is welcome. Thanks

External catalog link

Hi experts.
When i login to my b2b shop - i see link "External cataog" (in area Product Catalog).
How can I hide this link?
Thanks in advance. Kostya.

Hi Kostya,
Open your XCM setting and check "Components --> Customer --> Oci"
As you are getting link
When i login to my b2b shop - i see link "External cataog" (in area Product Catalog).
How can I hide this link?
1) It means that you have create OCI component under *Customer" and enabled External link. inside your OCI Component check values for ociEnabled change it true to false.
2) Also you can do it from Application Configurations
Go to Customer select your default scenario (Green dot) click on Display of Advance setting. Look for ocidata and if there is any cusotm value change it to Select to create component Configuration save it and restart the application.
Now you will not see "External Catalog" link.
In your XCM setting you have enabled "OCI" and this is the reason you are getting "External Catalog" link. Disable it in OCI as mentioned in option "1" or Do not use any OCI configuration as mentioned in "2".
Let us know if you face any problem.
Cheers.
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Entering values in Web Services ID and Description, for External Catalog

Hi,
I am trying to connect to an external Vendor Catalog from ERP. Pl note that we just have ERP ECC 6.0 and no SRM. I went to SPRO and followed menu path 'Materials Management >> Purchasing >> Web Services: ID and Description'. I am not sure what to enter in 1) Seq. Number 2) Name of Parameter for Web Service and 3) Call Structure COLUMNS.
I have URL from Vendor, User Name and Password. I need to know what values are mandatory here so I can successfully connect to external Catalog. If someone can give me sample values, I can try.
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SRM 5.0 External Catalog is not working in SRM 7.0

Hi,
I am facing an issue with External Catalog. It is working fine in SRM 5.0 but not working in SRM 7.0. I added the returntarget parameter and HOOKURL but still no luck. The parameters I have entered are
http://www.xxx.es/punchout/sap/ocipunchouthtml.aspx?username=xxx&password=xxx
USERNAME     XXX   Fixed Value
PASSWORD    XXX   Fixed Value
retruntarget    _top    Fixed Value
HOOKURL                 Return URL
The issue is that when I directly put the catalog URL in browser, it takes me to correct page from where I can shop but if I click the same link through SRM 7.0, it is navigating to some other page of vendor catalog from where items can't be added to shopping basket.
Please suggest.
Thanks,
Anshuk Saxena

Hi ,
You need to maintain this call structure in SRM system   standard call structure .
5                https://url
10     USERNAME
15     PASSWORD
20     CURRENCY     EUR
25     BORG
26     E_mail
27     Country
30     reqUsername
35     reqPassword
40     buyer_mpid
45     USER_ID     SY-UNAME
50     Language     EN
55     BYPASS_OUTB_HANDLER     X
56     BYPASS_INB_HANDLER     X
80     HOOK_URL
85     ~OkCode     ADDI
90     ~target     _TOP
95     ~CALLER     CTLG
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Pradeep Kumar Dondeti

We are using SAP SRM to punch out external catalogs. Firefox version 3.5 and below works fine and the items from the catalogs are brought back to SRM .But when we use version 3.6.12 the items are not getting transferred back to SRM from the Catalogs.

SRM is a procurement system from SAP which we use to purchase goods and service. We have external catalogs like officemax, cdw etc which we punchout the items and bring it to SRM for ordering.
When we use firefox version 3.5 and below the items which we add from the Catalogs are correctly brought back to SRM for us to order. But when we use versions 3.6.12 the items are not brought back to SRM.
Internet Explorer 7 and 8 works fine. Is there anyway you can help us.
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Hi,
Firstly I would suggest you to upgrade your database from Oracle Release 11.2.0.1.0 to Oracle Release 11.2.0.2 . This is the recommended Oracle 11g database version for SAP solutions. Many of your problem will get resolved with it.
Question 1:
So my first question would be is there any other suggestions besides adjusting the mentioned parameter above in order to ensure that no work processors going into hang state due to RFCs' occupying it as this issue always happens at the end of the month only when there are massive users accessing it.
For immediate resolution the approach you have followed is correct viz limiting number of dialog processes for RFC. Secondly you need to analyze why RFC processing takes so much time. You need check which programs are getting executed by those RFC.
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My second question is what went wrong with the libttsh11.so file. How could it be 0 size in PRD when no signs of changes had happen to the PRD system. Is this a proven Oracle Bug or something else since I have never encountered anything like this before.
The libttsh11.so library cannot be found in the related directory.
Cause
The file system is mounted using CIO option, but per Note 257338.1 Direct I/O (DIO) and Concurrent I/O (CIO) on AIX 5L, an ORACLE_HOME on a filesystem mounted with "cio" option is not supported.
Such a configuration will cause, installation, relinking and other unexpected problems.
Solution
Disable the CIO option on the filesystem.
References
NOTE:257338.1 - Direct I/O (DIO) and Concurrent I/O (CIO) on AIX 5L
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