Mastering SAP ABAP

Using DOI to integrate Microsoft Office applications into ABAP reports

DOI is an ABAP object interface that can be used to work with Office applications using the OLE2 interface. You can use it to edit the Office format, but it can also be used to integrate Office applications into ABAP reports. This could be bi-directional integration, meaning the ABAP report can react to Office events and Office can react based on ABAP logic. DOI significantly extends the possibilities presented in previous chapters carried out using OLE classes.

Using DOI is also much more complicated than using OLE objects, so we will focus on only one example of integrating a Word document into the ABAP program. Forget for a moment about our standard program template ...