AP Essentials Connect for PROCESS DIRECTOR AP

When running the installation, some computers display a message that states, "Installation directory must be on a local drive." If you receive this message, run this command as an administrator in Windows Command Prompt:

msiexec /i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tungsten\AP Essentials Connect\Tungsten AP Essentials Connect.msi" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1"

If the Image upload service is enabled, you can use Tungsten AP Essentials Connect to upload documents to AP Essentials. Customers can upload their own documents for processing, and partner administrators can upload images on behalf of all of their customers.

Ideally, you specify the Root folder, and then click   to automatically generate the subfolders. Subfolder are created for each buyer defined in AP Essentials. If no buyers are defined, the subfolder has the same name as the organization (customer account). These subfolders determine which buyer the documents are connected to when they are uploaded to AP Essentials. Additional subfolders are created for each document type, if the buyer has more than one document type.

In this example, the Folder containing scanned images is named “Upload."

• Upload documents to AP Essentials – Specifies whether you use Tungsten AP Essentials Connect to upload documents to AP Essentials.
• – Auto-generates the folder structure inside the Root folder.
• – Displays a dialog which you can use to add a folder location manually. When you specify the folder location, you can optionally associate a buyer/seller and document type with the folder. Partner administrators can also specify a customer account.
•   – Displays a dialog which you can use to edit the selected folder location.
•   – Removes the selected folder from the Upload locations list. Note that the folder is not deleted from the hard drive.
• – Removes all of the folders from the Upload locations list. Note that the folders are not deleted from the hard drive.
• Upload locations – Displays a list of locations where Tungsten AP Essentials Connect looks for images to upload to AP Essentials.
• Processed documents folder – Specifies the folder where you want to move the images after they have been uploaded.
• Document sorting - Determines how many documents each file can contain. See Help for more information about page separation.
• Upload documents automatically - When this setting is selected, files located in subfolders of the Folder list are automatically uploaded as soon as they are detected. If this setting is not selected, you must click the Upload documents button in the Tungsten AP Essentials Connect interface to manually upload images.
• Allow upload of XML files with matching image file - Normally, when you upload XML documents, AP Essentials automatically creates a document image from the XML data, so users can visualize the data during verification. If your solution uses XML documents and a document image file, select this setting, so you can upload both of these files, and AP Essentials will display the original document image during verification, instead of creating one from the XML data. This is helpful because it offers the superior data capture of XML, while displaying the original document image, which might contain additional information that is not available in the XML. Make sure that the corresponding file pairs have the same file name.

Importing master data using the master data service differs from uploading master data as described above. When you select Master data service in the setup wizard, master data is imported directly from PROCESS DIRECTOR AP. When importing the master data, CorporateGroupID elements in PROCESS DIRECTOR AP master data are mapped with the external IDs of buyers in Tungsten AP Essentials. Master data is only imported for buyers that match a CorporateGroupID.

If PROCESS DIRECTOR AP is specified as a target system, you can use Tungsten AP Essentials Connect to automatically export invoices to PROCESS DIRECTOR AP.

If you log in to Tungsten AP Essentials Connect as a partner administrator, you can configure settings for each customer that uses PROCESS DIRECTOR AP as the target system. The feature saves you time because you do not have to log in to different accounts to configure multiple customers.

You can upload documents to AP Essentials in these supported file formats using AP Essentials Connect.

If you have problems running Tungsten AP Essentials Connect:

• Make sure you have access to the URL that corresponds to your location:
  • Europe: https://webeyeprod.blob.core.windows.net/onlineconnect/install/Deployment.manifest
  • Australia: https://webeyeprodasia.blob.core.windows.net/onlineconnect/install/Deployment.manifest
  • US: https://webeyeprodna.blob.core.windows.net/onlineconnect/install/Deployment.manifest

You can click the links above to test if you have access. Click the links using the same computer that runs Tungsten AP Essentials Connect. If you receive a 404 error, you do not have access.

• Make sure you can download the files that are listed in the page that is displayed when you click one of the links above. To do this, replace "Deployment.manifest" in the URL with one of the file names in the list.
• Log in to AP Essentials using the same computer that runs Tungsten AP Essentials Connect to make sure you can connect to AP Essentials.
• If you use a proxy connection, make sure the settings are applied to the same user/account that runs Tungsten AP Essentials Connect. By default, this is a local System account. To test this, access AP Essentials using a location above, then change the Tungsten AP Essentials Connect user to the same Windows user you tested with.

If you receive the message, "Name or password is incorrect (repeat logon)", it can be caused by using an exclamation point (!) in your password. Even if the login information works correctly using "SAP logon", the exclamation point can cause problems when using AP Essentials Connect.

To resolve this issue, try changing your password to a password that does not use exclamation points.