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3443079 - Retrieve Follow-Up Sales Document PDF Error

Symptom

You are trying to retrieve Sales Quote Preview from an Opportunity and getting error message like or similar as below:

"Preview PDF not available for external sales quote "

or 

"Cannot invoke \"com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode.get(String)\" because the return value of \"com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode.get(String)\" is null"

Environment

Cloud for Service and Sales Version 2

S/4Hana Cloud 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Log in C4C system
  2. Open Guided Selling
  3. Open Opportunity ID
  4. Navigate to Section Sales Quotes
  5. Click on Show More (3 dots button)
  6. Click on Preview

The issue is happening to an external Quote (External ID) from your S/4Hana Tenant.

  • You have ensured to maintain the template ID for Sales quote in Select form template settings and it is active.
  • The preview from a random local sales quote works also fine.
  • In S4Hana Cloud system, while trying to activate "Retrieve Follow-Up Sales Document PDF from SAP S/4HANA" this Communication Scenario does not exist.

Cause

PDF Print Preview is not available for integration with S/4Hana Cloud Version

Resolution

Print PDF preview for Sales Documents are not current available when C4C is integrated with S/4Hana Cloud only S/4Hana OnPrem version.

As alternative, SAP has delivered the External Link for Sales Quote and Sales Order Object which allows to launch the External Document from S/4Hana system, embedded in C4C.

See Also

S/4Hana Cloud Setup Guide

(page 47.) Retrieve Follow-Up Sales Document PDF from SAP S/4HANA (Only for SAP S/4HANA)

Keywords

Follow-Up Sales Document PDF;PDF;Sales Quote; Print Preview; Preview;External Document , KBA , CEC-CRM-INT , Integration for SAP Sales/Service Cloud , Known Error

Product

SAP Sales Cloud and SAP Service Cloud Version 2 1.0