We have a requirement to connect to an external catalog from ME51N tcode (Purchase Requisition). This integration must be done entirely from ECC side and shouldn't be linked with SRM.
I have tried configuring the OCI on two different places. Let me explain the results and doubts for each. I don't need the two solutions, just one that gives me what I require.
Path: SPRO-> IMG-> Materials Management-> Purchasing-> Environment Data-> Web Services: ID and Description
Here I was able to configure the connection to the Catalog, and after defining it as default I get the button on ME51N's toolbar to get to the catalog. I'm able to select the data and return it to the purchase requisition. However some data that the client is sending is not the same as we have configured in our materials management, e.g. if they send a material group that we don't have the received material group is deleted and I can't see what the catalog returned for that field.
I've searched for a way to map these fields, and possibly insert some Z code to map those values and fill them like we need to, but I havent found anything that is usefull, most documentation is made for SRM, not for ECC.
So, how can I map/configure these values returned from the catalog? I'm currently looking at BADI ME_PROCESS_REQ_CUST to makes changes based on what the Catalog returned, but this is too late, as not configured values have already been deleted by then.
Since I couldn't configure this, I tried another way, using this other path, that does give me the option of mapping the fields from the catalog to SAP's standard fields, and even the possibility to set exits to add personal logic.
Path: SPRO-> IMG-> Plant Maintenance and Customer Service-> Maintenance and Service Processing-> Maintenance and Service Orders-> Interface for Procurement Using Catalogs (OCI)-> Define Catalogs.
However I haven't been able to display a link to these catalogs in ME51N.
Can these Catalogs be linked to ME51N?
Thanks
Well, I have no catalog by my hands now, but the procedure for connecting catalog to ERP via OCI seems to be the following:
You should make proper customization in the path
SPRO-> IMG-> Plant Maintenance and Customer Service-> Maintenance and Service Processing-> Maintenance and Service Orders-> Interface for Procurement Using External Catalogs
To adjust automatic Purchase Requisition creation you should set item category to N (non-stock item).
And also you should activate method COMPONENT_VIA_CATALOG_GET in BAdI PLM_CATALOG_IF.
See additional details here.
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Does Saleor have some minimum implementation of interaction for receiving data from client
I need to receive some data from client for special product that will be created and send to him.
As for me the best way will be order Line Note editable by user
I've tried to add new fields to CartLine after to CheckoutLine, but it's not good way because i need to modify #saleor/sdk in frontend and modify backend API.
I've tried to esaminate different custom fields like:
customerNote (OrderAddNote)
OrderLine
OrderLineInput
OrderLineCreateInput
CheckoutLine
CheckoutLineInput
CheckoutCreateInput
MetaStore
MetaItem
MetaClientStore
Metadata
and found that in all of them some notes can create only stuff users.
My question is:
What is the best way to have interaction with customer? If there is noting: Is it reasonable to change permission for Add Metadata o Add Note.
PS. How can I see metadata in dashboard orders
Metadata can be created / updated for a checkout without any special permissions and can be seen and edited from the Dashboard. Customer notes can be used as well, but have less features.
I am trying to find the equivalent of FQP/FQD/FQN queries in the Amadeus SOAP service (Flight) API, but couldn't find one. I checked the API documents as well with no luck. There is command cryptic API to call the GDS commands, but the response is raw data as in the terminal, not a structured one. I need structured data response to precess data in the system.
Is there any SOAP APIs available to get the fare details and the rules?
Thanks
This is a question best sent to Amadeus directly! It's hard to know exactly what you are after without more information. Also Amadeus offer a wide variety of doing basically the same thing and your business can be better off using one or the other - its really impossible to tell without background information.
Check out these webservice calls:
Fare_PricePNRWithBookingClass
The function Fare_PricePNRWithBookingClass is used to price itineraries.
It can return one or several fare recommendations for the passenger(s) and for the itinerary of the active PNR. Only booking classes present in the flight segment of the PNR are considered.
After calling Fare_PricePNRWithBookingClass function, the system keeps the recommendations stored internally for three minutes in a dedicated context. This context can be used to create a TST by using Ticket_CreateTSTFromPricing.
Fare_PricePNRWithLowerFares
The function Fare_PricePNRWithLowerFares is used to display the lowest available fare for a given itinerary.
"Lowest available" means that this fare is applicable in a booking class where there are still enough seats available for the passengers of the PNR. This class might not be the one currently present in the flight segment of the PNR. In this case, rebooking might be necessary.
It can return one or several fare recommendations for the passenger(s) and for the itinerary of the active PNR.
After calling Fare_PricePNRWithLowerFares function, the system keeps the recommendations stored internally for three minutes in a dedicated context. This context can be used to create a TST by using Ticket_CreateTSTFromPricing. Please not that in case rebooking is required, it must be done (for example, using Air_RebookAirSegment) before TST creation.
Fare_InformativeBestPricingWithoutPNR
The InformativeBestPricingWithoutPNR function provided in the Fare interface is used to price informatively an itinerary without any PNR. If a PNR exists, it is neither taken into account nor updated. No pricing record (TST) is created to store the results.
Fare_QuoteItinerary
The QuoteItinary transaction (FQP) quotes fares for passenger types without existing reservations (PNR). Pricing is executed according to the principles of IATA resolutions as well as according to specific user requirements, if industry conform or individual.
Most likely there are more options available (that I don't know about).
Documentation available at https://webservices.amadeus.com/ - login required.
I've got a lookup field on Account entity called something. Each such Something has a reference to an account. When my users click the magnifying glass, I want them to see a list of available Something records but filtered to view only such instances that link to the currently treated entity.
Also, I'll need to design such a filtration for Contact instances to only show the Something records that are related to the account that the currently regarded contact is a member of.
I can't decide between a plugin on Retrieve and some JS in OnLoad registering a fetchXML. All such operations will be done client-side. The solution needs only to work in CRM13 (and if possible apply some cool functionality in that version).
Suggestions?
JavaScript & FetchXml are your best option here as with a Retrieve plugin you're taking the performance hit of executing on every retrieve regardless of whether the entity is being retrieved for the lookup. A filtered lookup in JS only applies for those scenarios that require a change to the field on Account.
Another other good reason for using a filtered lookup in Js is they are now a supported feature in CRM 2013 as opposed to the "hack" that was required in 2011.
Some more info on addPreSearch and addCustomFilter can be found on MSDN and there's a decent blog post providing examples here.
I have an SP site where employees submit their reports. A report is submitted with Company information attached as metadata in a sharepoint library.
For a company there is a customer attached with a separate login in our AD and the customers all belongs to a separate user group.
I want to create a separate site where their customers can login and read their reports
My first problem is to share a library between sites so that the customers can access the reports submitted in our internal site.
Second problem is to create a connection between the company and the customer login so i can filter the reports so that the customer only sees their report.
How would you go about doing this?
From what I understand of this scenario, I would handle report sharing with customers as a content deployment exercise. Not sure whether you want one site for all customers from all companies to log in or if you'd want to create a site for each company. Custom development of either event receivers or workflow on the internal list would handle 'publication' (i.e. copying the document to the client-accessible list) of a report once uploaded (and potentially - approved).
If there is one common site, you would need to factor in item level permission setting based on the company metadata. If you have a site for each company, security should be a whole lot easier.
If your goal is only to share reports then going with separate site for customer login or with site per customer is IMHO huge overkill and almost useless.
Solution to your problem is quite easy: One site with separate Document Library for each customer. There is not much difference between 1 customer = 1 site and 1 customer = 1 library except for simple scenario I found that maintaining multiple libraries on single site is much more easier then maintaining multiple sites with basically one library on it. However if you plan to have more interaction and 'sharing' with customers (now or in future) then separate site for each customer is a option.
Steps:
Define custom Document Content Type on site level holding all metadata your report needs
Create Document Library for each customer with this new content type
Define permissions on Document Library level - each customer can access only one designated library (need to have read rights on site)
Your employees need to upload report to customer library so that customer can see it. If permissions are set correctly then customer can see only designated library and you can easily set administrators (can see all) and superusers (can see more then one library/customer).
Having all reports in single site will simplify developing process for additional business logic by using custom workflows and/or receivers. Also searching and aggregation for administrator or super user is much easier.
What would be best practice for the following situation. I have an ecommerce store that pulls down inventory levels from a distributor. Should the site, for everytime a user loads a product detail page use the third party API for the most up to date data? Or, should the site using third party APIs and then store that data for a certain amount of time in it's own system and update it periodically?
To me it seems obvious that it should be updated everytime the product detail page is loaded but what about high traffic ecommerce stores? Are completely different solutions used for that case?
In this case I would definitely cache the results from the distributor's site for some period of time, rather than hitting them every time you get a request. However, I would not simply use a blanket 5 minute or 30 minute timeout for all cache entries. Instead, I would use some heuristics. If possible, for instance if your application is written in a language like Python, you could attach a simple script to every product which implements the timeout.
This way, if it is an item that is requested infrequently, or one that has a large amount in stock, you could cache for a longer time.
if product.popularityrating > 8 or product.lastqtyinstock < 20:
cache.expire(productnum)
distributor.checkstock(productnum)
This gives you flexibility that you can call on if you need it. Initially, you can set all the rules to something like:
cache.expireover("3m",productnum)
distributor.checkstock(productnum)
In actual fact, the script would probably not include the checkstock function call because that would be in the main app, but it is included here for context. If python seems too heavyweiaght to include just for this small amount of flexibilty, then have a look at TCL which was specifically designed for this type of job. Both can be embedded easily in C, C++, C# and Java applications.
Actually, there is another solution. Your distributor keeps the product catalog on their servers and gives you access to it via Open Catalog Interface. When a user wants to make an order he gets redirected in-place to the distributor's catalog, chooses items then transfers selection back to your shop.
It is widely used in SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) branch.
It depends on many factors: the traffic to your site, how often the inventory levels change, the business impact of displaing outdated data, how often the supplers allow you to call their API, their API's SLA in terms of availability and performance, and so on.
Once you have these answers, there are of course many possibilities here. For example, for a low-traffic site where getting the inventory right is important, you may want to call the 3rd-party API on every call, but revert to some alternative behavior (such as using cached data) if the API does not respond within a certain timeout.
Sometimes, well-designed APIs will include hints as to the validity period of the data. For example, some REST-over-HTTP APIs support various HTTP Cache control headers that can be used to specify a validity period, or to only retrieve data if it has changed since last request.