Tutorial 1: Presenting Data from an SAP System on a SharePoint Site
This tutorial provides detailed instructions on using the SAP adapter with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to present business data from an SAP system on a SharePoint portal. To demonstrate how to use the SAP adapter with Office SharePoint Server, consider the two most common entities in any business: customers and sales orders. In this example, an application is created in Office SharePoint Server, which uses the SAP adapter to do the following:
Retrieve a list of customers from the SAP system based on a search string.
Select a customer from the list and present details for the customer.
Retrieve the sales orders for the selected customer.
To extract customer data from an SAP system, the example uses the SD_RFC_CUSTOMER_GET RFC. To extract information about sales orders for a specific customer, it uses the BAPI_SALESORDER_GETLIST RFC.
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Some versions of the SAP system expose an RFC_CUSTOMER_GET RFC instead of SD_RFC_CUSTOMER_GET.
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Before proceeding with the tutorial, make sure you have installed all the prerequisites for using the SAP adapter with Office SharePoint Server. For more information about the prerequisites, see the BizTalk Adapter Pack installation guide, typically installed at C:/Program Files/Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack/Documents.
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Step 2: Create an Application Definition File for the SAP Artifacts
Step 3: Create a SharePoint Application to Retrieve Data from SAP