Blogs posted April 2009

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While Scheduling a Process Chain, there are two options : The start process is set to Direct scheduling.: BI_PROCESS_TRIGGER is released with configured start options. Subsequent application processes are scheduled and released as... Read More »

When we exchange messages with our external business partners, IDocs are often used. The IDocs would be sent in flat IDoc format to our business partner. Conversely, when we receive messages from our external business partners, they are also often... Read More »

Before you can begin to grasp OO-related concepts such as inheritance or polymorphism, you must first understand the fundamental concepts of classes and objects. This article will introduce you to these ideas. Why do we need classes? With all... Read More »

SAP software runs in a variety of browsers from several different manufacturers. We aim to keep you informed as to which browsers SAP supports. You’ll find up-to-date information pertaining to browser support of SAP in the Product... Read More »

Background PI Mapping Runtime can require external data for serveral reasons. Most common are different names for same unities in different systems. For example material classes vary often as well as names for organizations. A mapping program... Read More »

Business Planning and Simulation version for Netweaver successfully leverages the Netweaver infrastructure and we can use the data stored in infocubes in the Enterprise Data Warehouse in BPC7NW. In this blog we will discuss what tools and... Read More »

When you call a function module in a remote destination, a new internal mode and within it, an internal session is created in the remote system. So much is obvious. But few people know how powerful (but also how dangerous) it can be to call an... Read More »

Basics of PIPE monitoring – Part 1   Introduction POS Inbound Process Engine (PIPE) is currently an integral part of SAP’s retail solution portfolio. Use of PIPE in retail solution ensures high quality of complex sales data coming... Read More »

Life would have been easy if XI/PI provided us with the option of handling data of MS Excel files in a standard way. Unfortunately it doesnt ! So how can Excel files be handled in XI/PI? There are actually quite a few options available for us; 1.... Read More »