Buyers can add attachments and comments to the transaction documents that are being sent or received through the gateway. To send attachments and comments, you must configure the required settings on your SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA system. SAP Ariba provides BAdIs to customize attachments and comments.
Transactions Supporting Attachments and Comments
Learn about the transactions for each solution and whether they support attachments and comments.
How to Support Attachments and Comments
How to Support Attachments
Attachments are supported at the:
- Header level using the SAP Generic Object Services (GOS)
- Line level using the SAP Document Management System (DMS)
Watch the video to learn how to Support Line Level Attachments from the Gateway.
For doctypes that do not support attachments by default, you can implement the ARBCIG_ES_ATTACHMENT_UTIL BAdI to support attachments. The following implementation methods are available:
| Implementation method | Description |
|---|---|
| PRE_ATTACHMENT_PROCESS | To pre-process the attachment information. |
| POST_ATTACHMENT_PROCESS | To post-process the attachment information. |
| ATTACH_GOS_OBJECT_INSERT | To modify parameters before GOS object is inserted. |
| ATTACH_GOS_BIN_REL_CREATE | To modify parameter before GOS binary relation is created. |
| ATTACH_DMS_DOC_CREATE | To modify the parameters before creating the DMS document. |
| ATTACH_DMS_DOC_CHECKIN | To modify the parameters before the DMS Document is checked-in. |
| READ_DMS_DOC_MODIFY | To modify parameters before reading the DMS document. |
How to Support Comments
Comments are supported as a Text object at both the header and line level.
For doctypes that do not support comments by default, you can implement the ARBCIG_ES_COMMENT_UTIL BAdI to support comments. The following implementation methods are available:
| Implementation method | Description |
|---|---|
| PRE_PROCESS_COMMENT | To pre-process the comment information. |
| POST_PROCESS_COMMENT | To post-process the comment information. |
Note
For more information, see Supporting Attachments and Comments.
Now that you've learned about supporting attachments and comments, we'll move on to mapping variants and partition.