We’ve discovered that BOAO 2.2 SP2 will display “System Messages” setup in the BW system using t/c SM02. Screenshot below shows an example of such popup in BOAO. This seems to be undocumented feature -- neither Admin or User guide make any references to this functionality. SM02 messages are good for system-wide notification such as example below, but it’s not possible to address specific users.
Scenario we’re looking to implement is as following: for specific DataSource, data loads will run in BW several times / day, user base is global, so updates will be running in the middle of business day at least for some users We want to notify end-users with current connection to the DataSource that re-load has just completed and they want to refresh data in their BOAO workbook. Same BW system hosts a number of other (functionally unrelated) DataSources, so we don’t want to use System Messages because it will send show message to all users of this BW system. We have developed ABAP program that runs as a part of data load Process chain and does everything we want except it sends notification via email.
My specific question is whether it is possible to use communication mechanism that is used to show System Messages for other kinds of messages generated in the back-end. Ideally, we’d want BOAO to behave consistently with SAP GUI which shows popup when new SAPOffice message marked “Express” is sent to specific user(s). We’ve experimented with this and it does not look like BOAO is detecting/showing such messages.
Any comments/pointers to SAP Notes / earlier discussions on this topic are welcome!
