LabVIEW Programming with SAP

[JLuna]

Hello everyone,

    At the moment here in my company we want to make communication with our SAP system. I know very little about SAP, just know that

we use it to manage our current client orders, material management among other activities. Basically my question is:

• If someone has developed a full application were pulling tables, data, information from SAP server has been done successfully? I meanis it possible to communicate with SAP, with no problem. If someone has, could you share some examples or code of your own. Thatwould really help me to understand more about ActiveX (haven't worked with ActiveX that much) and how does it interact with SAP to pull information to LabVIEW interface.  

I just browsed the forum and found few posts:

• https://lavag.org/topic/6972-labview-with-sap/
• https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/SAP-BAPI-ActiveX-Interface/m-p/1715732#M605165
• https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/LabVIEW-SAP-ActiveX-Connection/m-p/2729739#M807780

 So anyone with some examples, how to log in, how to pull tables from SAP, I would really appreciate that.

Thank all in advance.

[elcaba]

Hi Jluna,

I did some research and this is what I found, the following information is related with the Database Connectivity Toolkit. Using the ODBC seems like the most straightforward solution. Here are a few links you can use to help connect to SAP using ODBC: 

SAP ODBC Manual: 
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/12/2e5069684643da90429391ac190eda/frameset.htm 

SAP ODBC Driver: 
http://www.rssbus.com/odbc/sap/?gclid=Cj0KEQiA7NyiBRCOhpuCm9Dq6b4BEiQA9D6qhd49Zj5UQBw1ulgd9Ln17a-oTH...

Other links: 
Whether to use ODBC: http://scn.sap.com/people/lars.breddemann/blog/2008/05/19/questions-to-sap-support-is-odbc-access-to...
Using Web Services or .NET instead: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38805 

 I could not find any example, 

But I hope this could help you.

[RTSLVU]

I don't know the exact details but our test group has integrated SAP into our production ATE stations.

If it helps point you in the right direction I recall they had to use LabVIEW web-services and the SAP team had to do something in their end to make it work.