I have several clients who own a SAP system, so I often develop integration flows that invoke BAPI exposed as Web Service. However, every time, I lose a lot of time in verifying the SAP configuration that allowed me to download the correct WSDL and generate a XSD schema. So, I decided to document every step, from the access to SAP to check the correct configuration up to the necessary actions on BizTalk side.
Configure the SAP logon settings
Start the SAP GUI program
Add new connection entry
Select “User Specified System”
There are two ways to access the SAP system, in this document I choose to connect directly to the application server.
Then, specify a connection Description, Application server name, Instance number and System ID.
Accept default settings and click Next
Select your language
At the end you have the configuration ready to use.
Access to SAP
To access SAP, use an existing connection or one configured previously specifying user and password
You should get an interface similar to that shown below
So specify “soamanager” in the command field
The SOA Management web interface appears. Click on “Web Service Configuration”
Search the BAPI you want to generate a WSDL
Select the BAPI and click on “Apply Selection”
You must be sure that the “WSDL format” section is set to “Standard”. Unlike the wizard of visual studio will not be able to generate correctly the XSD schema and the bindings file.
Click on “Open WSDL document for selected binding or service”
The Internet browser appears with the WSDL. Save the file to a folder.
Open the BizTalk Visual Studio project and Add a generated items.
Select “Consume WCF Service”
Select “Metadata Files (WSDL and XSD)”
In the Metadata Files form, add the WSDL file that you had previously saved and then click Next
Specify a Namespace and click on Import
That’s all. You have your SAP web services schema ready to use.
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