How does the LOE compare using Floe for email creation vs SAP standard tools?
With Floe you get much further, more quickly, with much less custom code. This table describes where the effort is required:
With Floe you get much further, more quickly, with much less custom code. This table describes where the effort is required:
Yes! Floe is a certified add-on for SAP S/4HANA, and works with any NetWeaver ABAP stack from 700 upwards.
Floe is comprised of: A back-end 'SAP Add-on' component, installed into your on-premise SAP system. A Fiori app Template Designer, which can be deployed to your front-end server or the SAP cloud. A cloud-based image repository (no installation component required) Floe integrates with Renda.io cloud services for the generation of PDF documents and for the sending [...]
Many SAP customers have looked outside SAP for a solution to maintain output templates. This can include the print output template design, the printing, the email design, and the emailing process. With Floe you can bring this back inside SAP to make significant savings. Floe is integrated into SAP, not interfaced. This means any data in [...]
Email templates can be designed in third party products and then imported into Floe. So any existing HTML email templates can be pasted into Floe Designer as a single block. Floe sends emails through SAP Connect (BCS), which in turn will use the email server of your choice. Floe offers no additional integration with any other [...]
The Arch Floe API can be called from SAP Workflow using either an attribute or a method to pass data from the workflow container to Floe. The detailed set-up is described on the Floe support site. See the demonstration here.
Floe can be triggered from a custom Posting Adapters in order to format the outbound e-mail using Floe instead of Arch Aquiller. Example code is provided on the support site. Floe can also read Arch Aquiller texts from a user exit, to bring content defined in Aquiller into Floe emails if required.
Floe is fully integrated with Arch Stelo. This includes: Process notification emails Reminder emails Administrator emails Additional complex emails can be triggered from Posting Functions. All Stelo app data is automatically available to be included in the emails.
Floe is fully integrated with Arch Varo. This includes: Process notification emails Reminder emails Administrator emails Off-line (PDF) forms Additional complex emails can be triggered from Posting Functions. All form data is automatically available to be included in the emails.
The Floe engine can be invoked with a simple API (function module) call. It can be triggered from a range of process events, including: SAP Document Output / FI Correspondence / Payment Runs (Add API call to the "print program") SAP Workflow SAP Business Events Arch Stelo / Varo processes SAP Conversational UI for chatbots SAPUI5 [...]