Integrating IBM Datacap and Content Collector for SAP

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Datacap can store scanned documents, including captured data, directly in IBM repositories. The archived documents cannot, however, be accessed from the SAP GUI. By integrating Datacap and Content Collector for SAP, the scanned documents are archived with Content Collector for SAP like incoming documents so that they can be retrieved from the SAP GUI.

Before you begin

  • Install Datacap Version 8.0.1 or later.
  • Install Microsoft.Net Version 2, or later, on the system where Rulerunner of Datacap runs.
  • Installing the add-ons package. Install the package on the system where Rulerunner of Datacap runs.

About this task

To make the archived documents accessible from SAP, incoming documents are archived by creating work items in an SAP workflow or by processing their bar codes. The functions that are necessary to complete these tasks are provided by the API of Content Collector for SAP (dynamic-link library csclient.dll).

For the integration with Datacap, Content Collector for SAP supplies a set of custom actions that use the functions of the API. The custom actions are defined in the dynamic-link library ICCSAPAccess.dll. For Datacap V8, Content Collector for SAP also supplies the ICCSAPAccess.rrx file so that the custom actions can be used in the related rule sets. For Datacap V9, the ICCSAPAccess.rrx file is not needed because the functionality that is supplied by this file is integrated in the ICCSAPAccess.dll library.

The following figure shows which parts of the Content Collector for SAP environment must be configured so that you can integrate Datacap.
Figure 1. Configuration of your Content Collector for SAP environment for integrating Datacap
The architecture of the Content Collector for SAP environment showing only the parts that must be configured so that you can integrate Datacap. These parts include SAP ArchiveLink, a Collector Server instance, Datacap, and the repositories.
In your basic instance configuration, you configured the following parts:
  • At least one Java™ RFC dispatcher for the communication between the Collector Server instance and SAP if you want to archive the documents by creating work items in an SAP workflow
  • The logical archive the scanned documents are stored

Take these steps to complete the configuration of your environment for integrating Datacap: