E-Mail Receiving Process

The recipient can access his or her business workplace (transaction SBWP) with the incoming mails and PDF attachments.

Of course, it is more interesting to access the business workplace automatically:

• An ABAP program accesses the business workplace.
• The program reads the e-mail.
• It looks for PDF attachments inside the e-mail.
• It parses those attachments and extracts the XML content.
• Finally, the data is prepared for further processing steps like calling a BAPI to book the data in the SAP database.

An e-mail arrived in the user's inbox.

The attachment consists of a PDF and can be visualized manually.

ABAP coding is needed to trigger all this automatically.

Function call SO_ATTACHMENT_READ_API accesses e-mail attachments.

Several function calls are necessary to access the SBWP via coding.

The figure shows the order in which those calls should be triggered.

Good programing style is to encapsulate those calls inside an own method or function call to improve the overview and reusibility of coding.