I was recently talking to a user of E-Sourcing and one of the challenges they faced with the tool was to be able to review all of the attachments that were provided as part of an RFx response. In order to view all of the response attachments, the user needs to click on each attachment separately in each RFx response and save it to their desktop.

After thinking about this problem for a little while, it occurred to me that downloading all of the attachments in a zip file ought to be something that could be done fairly easily, so I set off to prototype such a solution.

As it turns out, it is not that difficult to use E-Sourcing’s “script definition” capabilities to create a toolbar action that creates a zip file with all of the attachments on all of the RFx responses.

Image 1: RFx Create Zip Toolbar - click to enlarge

In the solution I prototyped, the script creates a new attachment with the zip file. This is one approach, but maybe emailing the zip would be a better idea. What do you think?

Image 2: RFx Response Zip File - click to enlarge

Lastly, by creating the zip file with a directory structure, the invididual response attachments can easily be seen.

Image 3: Zip File Directory Structure - click to enlarge

Welcome to my blog web site which will cover various topics related to SAP E-Sourcing. Each week I will provide an interesting post about SAP E-Sourcing. I hope you will comment on the postings and provide me with your feedback.

With any luck, together we can make this THE informative web site on SAP E-Sourcing (formerly Frictionless SRM).

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.

Rob Stevenson, Sunshine Systems, Inc.