Creating a simple e-mail message

In this recipe, we will see how we can create a simple program that will send an e-mail (SAP Office Mail) to an SAP user AJON1. There are no attachments involved in this recipe. However, we will want the SAP user AJON1 to see a pop-up express message when the e-mail document is received in his or her inbox.

How to do it...

We will now perform the steps shown as follows:

1. Declare two reference variables sendrequest and myrecpient to the classes cl_bcs and cl_sapuser_bcs.

   

2. We will then declare a variable for specifying the content of the e-mail email_text. This is based on the type bcsy_text. We also declare an object reference to the class cl_document_bcs with the name document.

   

3. We call the static factory method create_persistent of the class cl_bcs.

4. The returned reference is stored in the sendrequest reference variable declared earlier.

   

5. An SAP user object is then created using the CREATE method. This will be used later for specifying the e-mail recipient. The returned...