Open Enrollment Confirmation eMails

Question

Want to see if anyone has done the following..,
Under Open Enrollment, after plan review and after “SAVE”ing, the user has the option to “Print New Plan Selection”.  This has the effect of displaying a .pdf file to the screen with the user’s elections.
I would like for that .pdf to be automatically generated and e-mailed to the person after a save. (regardless of whether or not they had pressed “Print New Plan Selection”.
Before I start enhancing, I thought I’d check to see if anyone had already done this, and if so, where the touch points were.
Thanks…
…Mike
We're running :
NW 2004S, ESS 1.0 SP09 Web DynPro Version
with ECC 6.0 ERP2005 on the R/3 side

Answer 1

Have not done it, but it's very possible...especially if you want to clog up your network with unread emails including PDF attachments. haha (one thing to keep in mind is security concerns around sending this type of info in emails...and make sure the generated PDFs are cleared from the servers cache/temp files for the same reasons)
That "Print Confirmation" basically just goes out and pulls the configured Benefits Confirmation form. Beforer they "re-added" the feature back to the Benefits Overview service, I had to write a separate custom BSP app to allow the employee to print this at anytime. It was VERY easy.
I first called.....
    CALL FUNCTION 'HR_GETEMPLOYEEDATA_FROMUSER'
      EXPORTING
        username                  = sy-uname
      IMPORTING
        employeenumber            = pernr
        countrygrouping           = molga
        name                      = ename
      EXCEPTIONS
        user_not_found            = 1
        countrygrouping_not_found = 2
        OTHERS                    = 3.
....to get the employee tied to the user, and then after some error checking, called this....
*   Next we need to print the form
*   input parameter: FORM_TYPE (E=enrollment form, C=confirmation form)
*   the input parameter COMMAND is important! PDF=just send data out , FDIS=display in SAPGUI, etc.
CALL FUNCTION 'HR_BEN_FORM_PRINT'
             EXPORTING
                 PERNR = pernr
                 BEGDA = sy-datum
                 ENDDA = sy-datum
                 FORM_DATUM = sy-datum
                 FORM_TYPE = 'C'
                 COMMAND = 'PDF'
                 REACTION = 'N'
             IMPORTING
                 PDF_TABLE = pdf_tab
                 PDF_FSIZE = pdf_size
                 SUBRC = subrc
             TABLES
                ERROR_TABLE = err_tab.
You could do the same but after generating the PDF attach it to an email. There are TONS of examples out on this forum for doing this.