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3515074 - Attachment not merged with Purchase Order output

Symptom

After configuring the activity Define Output Settings for Document Types to enable the merging of attachments with the Purchase Order output, the expected attachment does not appear in the generated Purchase Order output. 

Environment

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Navigate to the Manage Your Solution app and choose Configure Your Solution.
  2. In the configuration menu, select the activity Define Output Settings for Document Types.
  3. For the document type Purchase Order (PO), configure the system to merge attachments with the PO output.
    • Ensure the checkbox Merge Attachments is selected.
  4. Create a new Purchase Order
  5. Attach a file to the Purchase Order
  6. Save the Purchase Order
  7. Display the output
  8. No doc merged to output

Cause

Unsupported document type attached to the Purchase Order (e.g txt, json, xml)

Resolution

As explained in the configuration help of configuration activity Define Output Settings for Document Types:

"In case a document type is not a PDF file, it is attached to the email but not merged."

Only PDF documents will be merged with the PRINT output.

Keywords

Purchase Order, Output, Attachments, Merge, PDF , KBA , MM-PUR-PO-OM , Purchase Order Output Management , Problem

Product

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud all versions