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(/users/19063/dweinberg.html) Daniel Weinberg ( https://people.sap.com/d.weinberg)

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Hi Community,

We need to retrieve a pdf le from URL that is stored as a link under the attachments of a material. The ultimate goal is to store this pdf as an attachment to a customer quote.

The URL is a regulare one that is publicly available w/o authentication. Meaning I can simply enter the URL (http://somehost.com/path/ le.pdf
(http://somehost.com/path/ le.pdf)) in webbrowser to get the le.

Is there any way to achieve this? We tried using the REST API but currently fail with an RABAX error whenever we call the REST service.

Any help appreciated,

Daniel

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Nov 08, 2017 at 10:37 AM

Hi Daniel,
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In blog post Read and Write ByDesign
%2Fquestions%2F348314%2Fdownload-pdf- Attachments using Web Services (https://blogs.sap.com/2015/10/08/read-and-write-bydesign-attachments-using-web-
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services/) I described how to create and update attachments of ByD business objects using Soap services. Adding an external link as attachment to a business object in ByD
works basically the same: just submit the external link instead of the le content (here: material attachment):

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<AttachmentFolder
DocumentListCompleteTransmissionIndicator="false"
ActionCode="06">
<UUID>00163e0e-4644-1ed5-9aed-c438b0f1dcec</UUID>
<Document PropertyListCompleteTransmissionIndicator="false" ActionCode="01">
<VisibleIndicator>true</VisibleIndicator>
<CategoryCode>3</CategoryCode>
<TypeCode>10001</TypeCode>
<Name>www.sap.com</Name>
<AlternativeName>My Web Page</AlternativeName>
<ExternalLinkWebURI>http://www.sap.com</ExternalLinkWebURI>
</Document>
</AttachmentFolder>

Using OData you would basically need to provide the same data, but I did not use that yet.

Best regards,
Knut
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Daniel Weinberg ( https://people.sap.com/d.weinberg)  Knut Heusermann

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Hi Knut,

This is exactly what I am trying to do. But I could not nd a way to download a PDF from an external source out of an ABSL script. I tryed to use a external service of type REST for this, but calling the
REST simply dumps.

Regards,

Daniel

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Hi Daniel,
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I have one requirement,

Here,

Sender Ariba cxml payload the attachment (“cid:[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])”)

document is coming in above format need to extract this content and send to base64 with third party… could you please suggest me with your inputs, that how we can
extract the content.

It’s very helpful.

Thank you.
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