Objective
To display or edit a file either within or outside a document info record, workstation applications are required. These applications define the programs to be used in combination with the frontend type that you learned about earlier.
Up to now, you have worked with the workstation applications delivered by SAP. These applications ensure that the correct programs are used to display or edit the corresponding file types.
Your company has now implemented a new CAD system that uses file types which cannot be displayed or edited with the existing workstation applications. For this reason, you decide to create a new workstation application.
In the first task, you create a new workstation application. For easier understanding, the BMP file type is used as an example. For this file type, you also assign the appropriate programs.
Watch the following video to see how a new workstation application is created in Customizing.
You then reopen the document that you created in the previous exercise. In this step, you assign the new workstation application to an existing file, store the file in the secure storage area, and use the display and edit programs.
Watch the following video to see how the workstation application is used within a document.
After completing the initial settings for a bitmap file, you now want to configure the necessary settings for Office Integration.
Watch the following video to see how Office Integration is created in Customizing.
Next, verify the Office Integration directly in the document. You assign a Microsoft Word document and display and edit it within the document.
The following video shows how to use Office Integration within a document.