I had a thought one day to use a code saved in database table for easy change of some calculation rules and I've prepared code to run SE38 like editor for such code. Maybe some of you also had such need, so today I will explain briefly how to do this. I will use FM 'EDITOR_TABLE_WITH_STATUS' to display an editor which you know from SE38/SE80 , 'SAPGUI_SET_FUNCTIONCODE' for setting OK_CODE for editor, 'PRETTY_PRINTER' to make our code looks readable. I will also use one trick that allows you to assign data which is available in calling program but not in our function. But before we need to prepare our own GUI status with some basic buttons like 'Patern' or 'Pretty Printer'.

In previous post I've shown how to zip file directly on PC without using CL_ABAP_ZIP, this time I will show you how easy is to use OLE2_OBJECT to create an MS Outlook message with attachment and save it in Outlook's Drafts folder. OLE2_OBJECT in fact can be used with any application that allows it, but today I will only show a hint how to work with MS Outlook.

I know that most of us use CL_BCS to create and send the message directly from SAP, but in a situation when you're working on local files then It may be better to do it with Outlook. This is of course just a short sample of the possibilities, all functions for OLE & MS you can find in MSDN documents.

Here is the code with f_path parameter which is used to pass path of local file to attach to message:

From time to time you have to work on files that are stored in user PC, like when you're working with SOI (SAP Office Integration) for example. All operations that are done are save directly to a file which is stored on PC so if you would like to zip it with cl_abap_zip class then you would need to copy file to ABAP memory, then zip it using cl_abap_zip and then save back file to PC. Sometimes this is not the best solution, especially when working on slow connections via VPN or similar. So with help there goes cl_gui_frontend_services=>execute. This method allows you to run every file on PC directly - also a program with proper parameters. In my example I will use IZArc (it's free and fast).

So what I'm doing here is:
- passing full path to the file which will be zipped
- call cl_gui_frontend_services=>environment_get_variable to check program files directories
- concatenate file path with parameter of IZArc "-ad"
- concatenate program files directories with 'IZArc\IZArc.exe'
- check if IZArc exists with  cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_exist
- if yes then I'm executing it with cl_gui_frontend_services=>execute.

Here is the full code for such function:

You might have a task to use or download one or all files attached to document saved via CV01N transaction. This is not a big deal really, you just need to use some FMs available in standard of SAP like  'CVAPI_DOC_GETDETAIL', 'CVAPI_DOC_CHECKOUTVIEW' or  SCMS_DOC_READ'.  These FMs allows you the check the details of document, check it and then read its content. Of course sometimes you'll have to zip the files before the downloading and here in my code I used method "zip" for which code you can find here.  While reading the code you may also find another Z-method called "get_filename_from_path", its code is posted here. The method I'm posting bellow allows you to choose if during download of files from document you want to zip them all together into one zip file or if you want to zip them separatelly. In table ET_FILES you'll find all files that were attached to document, field "UPDATEFLAG" will be set to 'D' if file was succesfully downloaded to PC. If you don't want to download the file but you want to get it for futher use you'll have to request ET_XSTRING table. In other case do not request this parameter as it is a sign for method that you don't want to donwload the files.

Types:

TT_RA_FILENAME type range of CVAPI_DOC_FILE-FILENAME.
TT_XSTRING type table of xstring.

Importing:

I_DOKAR TYPE DRAW-DOKAR ->Document Type
I_DOKNR TYPE DRAW-DOKNR ->Document number
I_DOKTL TYPE DRAW-DOKTL   ->Document Part
I_DOKVR TYPE DRAW-DOKVR  ->Document Version
I_DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY TYPE STRING -> path to download the fiels
I_ZIP_FILES TYPE C OPTIONAL -> mark it 'X' if you want to zip the files before downloading
I_ZIP_SEPARATELY TYPE C OPTIONAL -> mark it 'X' if you want to zip each file found in document separately
I_NAME_FILTER TYPE TT_RA_FILENAME OPTIONAL -> Range for filter filenames - select which documents you want to download
I_FILENAME TYPE CSEQUENCE OPTIONAL -> filename for zip - used if you zip all files into zip container

Exporting:

ET_FILES TYPE CVAPI_TBL_DOC_FILES -> Table with all files found in document 
ET_XSTRING TYPE TT_XSTRING -> TT_XSTRING -> Table of xstrings (each file in separated line)

Exceptions:

ZIP_ERROR -> Error while zipping
DOCUMENT_ERROR -> Error while reading document