SAP Desktop Office Integration (SAP DOI) — An Easier Way for ABAP Programmers to Integrate Desktop Applications with R/3r

by Rainer Ehre

Trying to integrate R/3 and desktop applications (like Excel, Word, Visio, and Lotus 1-2-3) strictly within the bounds of ABAP coding constructs can be complex and time consuming. SAP's Desktop Office Integration (SAP DOI) is an object-oriented ABAP API that provides a much cleaner, easier way to bring OLE-capable desktop applications into the fold of an R/3 application. ABAP programmers gain a uniform way to integrate various types of applications using both generic and application-specific interfaces, so that users can start a desktop application, open a document, make changes to it, save it, print it, and close it from within R/3. Using demo code developed with SAP DOI (available for download at http://www.SAPpro.com) as a reference, this article details the things you need to know to perform these activities in the R/3 environments you support.

Categories: ABAP Development, Front-end Integration

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