Integration technical feasibility

We are posting the following inquiry in order to verify the technical feasibility of a requirement for a system we are currently specifying.
The situation is the following:
We need to create a Purchase Order (PO) in SAP R/3 from an external application
Instead of entering the transaction and then selecting Purchase Requisitions (PR) or Quotations (Q) to include in the PO, the order is exactly the other way around: having the user selected a series of PRs or Qs, allow him the creation of a PO passing this PR and Q information as parameters.
Our constraint is that we need to emulate the behaviour of ME21 standard transaction without re-writing the logic, and BAPI_PO_CREATE1 does not cover all the functionality that our business requires (in fact, using a BAPI requires developing the front-end logic anyway). BAPIs are not an valid option in this case (at least in the way we know them).
We have learned that the ME21N transaction (enjoy transaction) allows to drag & drop a PR from the Document Viewer pasting this information into the PO and carrying out the validations.
The questions therefore are:
1) Is it possible to pass a series of PRs or Qs as parameters to a SAP transaction from an external application? We intend that the shop cart on top of ME21 understands the dropping of a document; could it be possible for the transaction to understand the same information coming from outside SAP?
2) If possible, how does it work?
3) In case it is not possible, our fallback is to embed SAP WEB GUI screen in our application, but we need to change the Look & Feel. How far can we go? Is it possible to re-design the WEB GUI to make a different presentation of the data (lay-out, colours, grids, etc)?
Regards,
Miguel.

you can create a composite process in nw04s where your external application will pass information to a Guided Procedure defined in SAP GP Design Time (see SAP Composite Application Framework - CAF Tutorial Center [original link is broken]) where a callable object of type "SAP Transaction" (see http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/43/f066f5cec64c5de10000000a155369/frameset.htm) will present ME21 prepopulated with data from external system to the user

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Now for the problems with this solution;
First of all, it depends upon VPN access into your environment, something that you may or may not be comfortable with. One good thing is that the iPhone does prompt for password to reconnect, and will tie the continuity of the VPN connection into the general phone lock security, such that an inability to provide the appropriate access code to a locked phone results in the VPN not being accessible.
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This solution for email delivery is obviously dependant upon the VPN connection being active. I’ve noticed that at times the iPhone will disconnect the VPN (probably when service switching) and not bother to mention it. When that happens, of course the VPN must be restarted.
For the lazy, this is an inconvenient solution because while it would appear that the iPhone will cache the VPN password, in fact it will not. That means that each re-launch requires that you re-enter your password. Not terrible for me, but I could see it being very tedious for the average corporate user.
The OSX Mail client has several little deficiencies, which may or may not impact your use of the device in this manner. For instance, if you have subfolders defined for your inbox, and server side rules to move mail into them, then you will not see any synchronization of that mail until you actually select the subfolder. Also, since there is such poor management of attachments and downloads, moving anything around via email on this device is nigh on impossible.
EDGE access to your corporate email, via a VPN, is a bit sloooooow. It works, it’s certainly fast enough for my purposes, but it’s not the slick quick access that we’ve all become accustomed to with Blackberry and Good devices. The lack of 3G support becomes a very noticeable shortcoming here.
(Why Apply didn’t simply partner with Good Technologies to crank out a client for this thing, I’ll never understand, but I guess you can refer to my comment above about certain people’s arrogance.)
The biggest problem of all of course is that it’s simply klugey. I hate klugey. But, with the capabilities at this device’s disposal, and given Apple’s ambitious, if a bit idiotic, stance that no third party will develop software for the iPhone, then this is about as good as it’s going to get for now.
It is my understanding that overseas there is some initiative underway to provide a more seamless Visto or Synchronica integration for enterprise email. However, given Apple’s unbelievably restrictive agreement with ATT regarding this device and the OTA necessity of delivering the client, I seriously doubt if we’ll see this in the near future in the US.
But I digress, so…
In Conclusion
This solution is not for the faint of heart, it doesn’t work all that well, and it has way too many moving parts that are subject to failure. However, I would say that this solution is serviceable for the corporate technology professional who needs email, and really, REALLY wants the other features of the iPhone. (ie, phone whores such as me.) It requires patience, it requires an understanding that this is not a 100% thing, and there definitely needs to be a prebuilt expectation that this device will not serve your email in anything approaching the manner to which you’ve become accustomed.
As long as all of that is okay though, then go right ahead, set it up, and enjoy!
The Short Version;
(I put this at the end because I want everyone to feel my pain!)
Wireless:
Use unsecured wireless or EDGE. Secured wireless may be serviceable as long as the SSID is broadcast, but there are known issues with this.
VPN:
L2TP, shared secret, running on Microsoft server, with Radius. (May work elsewhere, but doesn’t seem to run on Cisco at all) Accounts enabled for external access.
Exchange:
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The BIG Disclaimer at the End
Please note that all of this is provided ‘as is’. It worked for me, and I hope it works for you. To my knowledge, it’s not endorsed by Apple, and I’m not in the business of providing support for this thing. If it breaks something, if it doesn’t work, or if you simply don’t like it or me, I don’t care. However, if you have a question, and I’m not busy, and I feel like answering, I may lend a hand. You can email me at
Matthew dot Yotko at mac dot com
Don’t be surprised or offended if I don’t answer. Also, understand that I don’t check this address every day… Maybe a couple times a week.
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Thanks, now I understand why the wifi keeps dropping. On my personal wireless network, it also seems the distance from the access point is not good compared to my laptop. At work our network & exchange teams don't seem to have the desire to struggle with this "toy" until customers start forcing its adoption. I am using OWA and it works fine over EDGE. I will share your posting with them.
Thank you again.
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1. Identify business problem (given by the higher management) - document form.
2. Look for alternate methods to solve the problem. Automation (IT) is the possible solution.
3. project proposal document form
4. Feasibility analysis. I.e.
4.1 Technical feasibility.
4.2 Operational feasibility.
4.3 Time (cost benefit analysis) - COCOMO model/project estimation tools.
4.4 Economic feasibility. (cost benefit analysis)- COCOMO model/project estimation tools
5. Business case document. (why? business benefits) Deliverables.
6. project scope(high level business requirement)
6.1 Scope document (what business is expecting?)
6.2 Scope document (what is the boundary?)
7. Creation of first cut of project plan.
8. Business requirement in detail.
8.1 business modeling (define system context)
8.1.1 ARIS
8.1.2 Define high value business.
8.1.3 Change processes.
8.1.4 Functional diagram/process chain diagram.
8.2.1 UML
8.2.2 Assembly time diagram.
8.2.3 Ericson penken diagram.
8.3.1 BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING NOTATION.
9. Business process architecture.
9.1 High level business processes.
9.2 Business services
9.3 Enterprise architecture.
9.4 Data integration layer.
10. Conversion of business use cases into system use case using rational suite or similar.
11. specifications (if needed)
12. Use case models.
12.1 Activity diagrams.
12.2 Preliminary architecture analysis.
12.2.1 define use case packages - document
12.2.2 key abstractions document
12.2.3 interdependencies document
12.2.4 Analysis mechanisms.
12.2.5 Sequence diagrams.
12.2.6 Class diagrams.
12.2.7 Collaboration diagrams.
12.2.8 State diagrams.
12.2.9 Object diagrams.
12.2.10 Conceptual data modeling.
12.2.11 DBA making logical and data modeling.
12.2.12 User interface design.
13 Passed through diagram.
14 Requirement elicitation.
15 Documentation.
16 Requirement analysis.
17 Requirement management.
18 Requirement validation testing.
18.1 verification (everybody in the team come to one decision)
18.2 validation (computer testing)
18.3 Test plans.
18.4 Test scenarios.
18.5 Test cases for use cases (conflict level).
18.6 User interface information and functional information and data information.
19. Low fidelity prototypes.
20. High fidelity prototypes.
21. Test cases test data design (system testing).
22. Validating the cases.
23. Functional testing.
23.1 Usability testing.
23.2 User acceptance test (both done using tools like mercury test director, test manager, win runner).
24. Requirement change and submission of defects.
24.1 Change request management.
24.2 Clear quest.
25. Bug tracking.
26. Storing all information and project in repository.
26.1 Using clear case (rational suite).
26.2 Configuration management.
26.3 Change management.
26.4 Request management requisite pro.
26.5 Done by CME.
27. Test compilation reports- requirement management plan.
28. Training / assisting development/support guide.
ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES - Business process expert
1. ANALYSE PHASE.
1.1 Business planning and analytical services.
1.1.1 Designing a planning model.
1.1.2 Creating a planning function.
1.1.3 Designing a query.
1.1.4 Embedding queries into workbook.
1.1.5 Designing a workbook.
1.1.6 Designing a web application.
1.1.7 Executing a planning application.
1.2 Analysis process design.
1.2.1 Data modeling.
1.2.2 Analysis process design.
1.2.3 Data mining configuration.
1.2.4 Designing a query.
1.2.5 BI user interaction.
1.3 Enterprise knowledge management.
1.3.1 Content integration and management.
1.3.2 Content creation, publication and access.
1.3.3 Identifying needs and define requirements. change management.
1.4 ASAP.
1.4.1 Project preparation.
1.4.2 Blueprinting.
1.4.3 Realization.
2. DESIGN PHASE.
2.1 User centered design.
2.1.1 Understanding users.
2.1.2 Defining interaction.
2.1.3 Design user interface.
2.1.4 Development validation.
2.2 use of VISIO
2.3 Use of ARIS.
2.3.1 Creation of consistent process architecture.
2.3.2 Configuration of sap components.
2.3.3 Interfaces and development of add-on.
2.3.4 Process oriented testing.
2.3.5 Quality control.
2.4 Use of guided procedures.
2.4.1 Idea management.
3 IMPLEMENT PHASE
3.1 Prepare the project.
3.1.1 Creating roadmaps.
3.2 Create business blueprint.
3.3 Realize the project.
3.4 Make final preparations.
3.5 GO-LIVE using ASAP.
3.6 Support for offline processes.
4 OPERATE PHASE.
4.1 Execute or deploy business process.
4.2 Monitor business process.
5 OPTIMIZE PHASE.
5.1 Measure business process.
5.2 Improve business process.
5.3 Release upgrade.
The above points/procedures elaborate a lot amongst them.like one point in itself is a whole procedure guide.still this is what I could gatherthe tools used by them may differ by organizations and also there budgets any help or suggestion would be appreciated.thanks to MR. Yusuf Mansoor (sr. business system analyst)
also the SOX laws/COBIT and ITIL are somethings which are decided by the higher management, for ex. if a company is utilizing configuration management or change management tool may be it has an in built SOX compliance and it works as according to the business rule.

Why no BBC iPlayer?

I'd been plugging my iPhone into my tv to watch the BBC iPlayer, and were frustrated that even the new Apple TV didn't included it. However I assumed that the BBC simply weren't willing to work with companies like apple to include it in devices like the apple tv.
Then I had to buy a new tv in a hurry so I hadn't looked into it thoroughly. I was amazed when the sales assistant said said a lot of people choose Sony rather than panasonic because of the iplayer. Enough said, we got a Sony.
How did apple miss the boat this much? They should have been the first to offer services like this. If it's now being built into tvs then apple are too late.
Apple really should start taking the apple tv more seriously. It may be impossible to make it perfect because of difficulties working with proprietary regional tv services, but there is a vast amount the could be doing to make it better.

I personally feel there's a rather blinkered approach to AppleTV which is far too US centric.
In the US Netflix and TV Show Rentals may be worthwhile selling points but are not available for most international customers, which seriously detracts from it's international appeal as there are no localised services to make is preferable to many other devices other than itunes integration.
YouTube access on a device is old hat, even if it appeals.
Even in US many devices have Netflix access, so AppleTV does not do anything unique there.
The established players in the AV market all seem to be releasing their BluRay players/STBs with iPlayer access, YouTube etc, many TVs have these features built in so without competing features and a heavily itunes Store/iTunes centric model which many don't want to use, AppleTV will have a problem getting a foothold without something unique. Look at how many DVD/BluRay players simply offer USB playback of a variety of formats - average consumers like these features yet Apple won't allow you to directly connect a USB drive even if it were technically feasible.
The reality is there are probably far too many services like iPlayer/4od etc globally for Apple to support all of them individually unless they work via a common core web technology i.e HTML 5 as we won't see flash on AppleTV.
Apple presumably just does not have the resources currently in AppleTV development to target each country with tailor made video services.
So what does Apple have up it's sleeve?
Airplay could really open things up if you could stream iPlayer from your phone/iPad, but it still needs that portable device - given mass sales of iPhones/iPads it's a big potential market for AppleTV as an accessory.
Secondly the new AppleTV is iOS based so it will be feasible to allow all sorts of plugin apps that may be popular in different countries, but it would presumably rely on people like the BBC creating these plugins and would they do so to work on targetted devices - given that they did enable HTML5 based players and if we think of downloadable podcasts for many radio shows, it might happen.

How to test with the standard Flash player, rather than debug player

Folks,
I am interested in running my flexunit 4 tests against the standard flash player, rather than the debug player that comes with the SDK. Is this possible?
BTW, I am working on Windows for now.
I installed both the flash ActiveX control for IE, and the standard flash plugin for Firefox. I then associated the SWF file extension with Firefox using the "Open With" dialog. I had to choose a single program, and the browser appeared to be my only choice, as I could not find any sort of "FlashPlayer10.exe" to associate with. I ran my ant script that calls <flexunit>, and it kind of works. It launches Firefox, runs the tests, and the results get piped back, but Firefox is not shut down. Yep, Firefox stays open after the tests complete. I seem to recall that the debug flash player would close itself after being opened by <flexunit>. I tried using IE, and the same result occurs: the browser is not shutdown after the tests complete. This behavior makes for an unacceptable test setup, as eventually the system memory on the machine will be exhausted as more and more browsers are opened and not closed.
Questions/options:
1) Is there a standard flash player "executable" somewhere on my system that I can associate the SWF files with (that would hopefully shut itself down)?
2) Second choice, is there a way to get the browser to close after <flexunit> completes?
3) or am I stuck using the debug player? I am concerned that testing management at my company might not like the fact that we are testing against a debug player, rather than the standard one that users will likely be using. If flexunit 4 CI only supports the debug player, is there something I can say to appease management?
Thanks for any help...
Trevor

@trevorbutler - Here are my 2 cents, but the group may have a different perspectives for your questions.
Currently, we suggest the use of the CIListener class as a FU4 listener for use when building your test SWF to run via the FU4 Ant task. This class (http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flexunit/branches/4.x/FlexUnit4CIListener/src/o rg/flexunit/listeners/CIListener.as) uses the fscommand() function to send a message to its host environment to exit (i.e. - fscommand("quit")). This command is only recognized by the Flash projector and stand-alone players, which are thin wrappers around the Flash Player so that it may be executed as its own process in the OS. Based on the setup you are describing, the behavior you're seeing should be expected since the browser is the host environment for the Flash Player. When the browser recieves the resulting message of the fscommand("quit") call nothing will happen since the browser doesn't support this command. If you use the Flash projector or stand-alone players however, they will exit when recieving the results of this command. The projector/stand-alone players come in two flavors, release and debug. Release will act very closely to the typical plugin installed in the web browser (e.g. - swallows errors, no debug support, etc) whereas debug will allow you to write log files to the system, show error messages, etc. Currently the debug stand-alones are available on Windows, Mac, Linux and the release stand-alone is only available on Linux.
To address your questions:
1. If you've installed the Flash Player browser plugin, there is no way that I know of to launch the player as its own process. I've only had success using the projector/stand-alone player (http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html).
2. The Flash Player does have the ability to send javascript to the browser to ask it to close the current window, but most modern browser will prompt the user to confirm they'd like to close the window if its the only open window. Additionally, taking this approach on Mac, the browser process would remain active until an explicit call is made to the host OS to shut down the browser process. The Ant task could be enhanced to use the browser to launch the Flash Player, but that is not currently on our checklist of features to support. If it's something you'd be interested in contributing, let me know and I can work with you on this.
3. For the time being the FlexUnit4 Ant task only supports the stand-alone Flash Player (and adl soon), which for Windows only comes in the debug flavor. The only thing I've run into with the stand-alone player is that ExternalInterface reports that its enabled, but since the host environment is not the browser, javascript calls made via this class will fail, consequently causing tests to fail. I haven't tried anything with shared objects or flashvars but my assumption is that they should work correctly, but anything that depends on the browser has the potential not to.
As far as your testing management goes, I would discuss with them the problem context FlexUnit4 hopes to solve. The framework is intended to produce unit and integration tests. Functional testing is not withing the scope of the library. Although, it's technically feasible to write integration tests which will exercise components similarly to a functional test, tools such as FlexMonkey, Selenium Flex, QTP, etc are much better geared towards this problem domain. Test recording and playback, using these tools, is typically done using the FP browser plugin and is much easier to use by most QA and testing staff. At the end of the day, as we're testing our code using FlexUnit at a smaller granularity than that of which the user interacts with in our application. To reliably test the applicaiton as the user would interact with it requires additional tooling and a different type of testing.
Like I said, just my take, maybe some of the other guys can help as well.

Requirement to use ODM user

Would it be technically feasible to take the following approach?
Export all of the ODM schema using the Oracle Export Utility. Create a new user called, CSI_ODM. Import all of these objects From User [ODM] to User [CSI_ODM]. Use CSI_ODM as our schema in which to build our ODM-based application. Deliver CSI_ODM schema in its entirety when we deliver the application. This way we are preserving the ODM schema as it is delivered and we are protecting ourselves from the inevitable situation where the ODM schema gets dropped and recreated with a new release of ODM and we are keeping all of the necessary permission under one controlled user. Downside is that we have another copy of all of the ODM objects in the database and if updates to ODM occur that we want to take advantage of, we will need to export, import and re-add our custom objects. But this is the only solution that I could think of under the current ODM 9iR2 architecture.
Thanks,
Dianna

ODM in 920 release has the ODM repository schema which holds all ODM metadata as well as operational data. Using export utility to export ODM schema as a backup is fully recommended. However, change ODM to a different schema name and operate data mining in that new schema is not supported by oracle. The scenario has not been tested. In addition, ODM is part of RDBMS 9204 patchset upgrade process, RDBMS upgrade will only upgrade ODM from a lower release level to ODM 9204, if the ODM schema is existed in the database. Each ODM patch upgrade will not drop ODM schema, it will upgrade existing ODM schema objects. Move ODM data around different schemas may also introduce data integrity issue which exp/imp utilities will not address.
When times come to upgrade ODM from 9i to 10g, again, ODM schema must exist in the database. In 10g, ODM schema will be upgraded into a normal data mining user schema while all ODM metadata will be stored in the DMSYS schema.

Transfer LN sent emails into CRM

Dear experts,
As part of one-to-one email integration with Outlook SAP provides an option to set up email transfer in Microsoft Outlook, which creates in Outlook corresponding "SAP CRM E-Mail Transfer" folder. This folder then can be used to put emails into it other than those in the inbox (for example, emails sent from Outlook) and subsequently have them transferred into CRM.
Unfortunately such an option is not available for Lotus Notes, but it is exactly what we need. Could you please provide your advice on how it would be possible to set up email transfer from Lotus Notes to CRM (other than Inbox)? Is it technically feasible to develop a custom solution for it?
Appreciate your advice very much! Thanks & kind regards,
Sasha

Simular question answered in
https://community.dynamics.com/crm/f/117/t/155402.aspx<o:p></o:p>
With server-side sync it is expected that emails sent
from CRM do not appear in the users Sent Items in Outlook. The whole point of
server-side sync is that a Outlook is not required and that the flow of emails
is from CRM to the outgoing email server which may or may not be Exchange.<o:p></o:p>
As you have found for items to appear in Sent Items it is
best to use CRM for Outlook sync.<o:p></o:p>
For more details refer the following link :-
http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/dynamics/crm-customer-center/set-up-email-processing-through-server-side-synchronization.aspx<o:p></o:p>
Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p>

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