SAP Notes are filed as components with varying types and object formats in the OT archive, depending on the version of OpenText being used. For the SAPERION viewer to be able to display the notes, a structured SAPERION document must be created. This document must contain a text data object as the last element. Notes can be contained in an OT document as a component of one of the following types (column: COMPTYPE_NAME in the component table).
| Type (Name) | Type (Number) | Format |
|---|---|---|
| ASCII Notes (ASCII_NOTE) | 13 | ASCII/ANSI |
| XML Notes (x-notes) | 35 | |
| Notes (x-note) | 16 | XML UTF-8 |
| Application/xml | 33 | XML ANSI/ASCII Base64 coded, UTF-8 |
It is possible that a document contains multiple note objects of varying types. In this case, only the latest object is relevant (“compdate” column), since it contains all previous notes. Data analysis has shown that the data type in this case is always application/xml.
The data must be converted to a text object, based on its content type. It is possible to display Unicode data in the notes.