Xss-ess Home Page

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XSS Homepage Framework for Employee Self-Service

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XSS Homepage Framework

The following session explains:Benefits of XSS Homepage FrameworkShort IntroductionHow to customize your own ESS Homepage

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Benefits of the XSS Homepage Framework

For endusersSimple and fast access to all Web applications such as ESS applicationsAccess to context informationFast access to e.g. frequently used ESS applicationsReminder functionality

For companiesEasy grouping of Web applicationsPossibility to provide customer individual information such as vacation rules Inclusion of external links (guidelines, manuals etc.)

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Introduction of new Homepage Framework

Area group page

Area page

The Homepage Framework enables you to create area group and area pages, thereby providing your employees easy access to Web applications (services) that run in the SAP Enterprise Portal. These pages group and describe the different services and contain hyperlinks which they can be started. Various components such as Employee Self-Service and Manager Self-Service can use the framework.

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Flexibility Area Group Page and Area Page

Flexible text adaptionEdit area and service descriptionEdit the link text of the hyperlinksAdd additional customer individual information

Flexible service behaviourEmphasise certain serviceDeactivate servicesDisplay employee-specific information as dynamic links (e.g. „Nine daysof leave will expire by <Date>“)Assign customer specific services and short description

Individual change of picture

The homepage framework offers the following functions:

Flexible text adaptation such as you can easy edit area and service descriptions, you can edit link text of the hyperlinks that the employees use to start the service and you can add additional customer individual information like integration of html pages including company rules, external links to e.g. manual, guidelines etc.

Flexible service behaviour such as emphasising certain services (for example, because there is an urgent deadline), Deactivate services, Display employee-specific information as dynamic links (for example, "Nine days of leave will expire by <Date>") , Add customer specific services including short descriptions

Easy exchange of picture possible

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Flexibility of Area Group Page (Homepage)

group text

area link text

short area description

quick links

Picture

The Area Group page or Homepage is very flexible, you can easy adapt e.g. text elements on the area group page (homepage) or pictures

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Flexibility of Area Page 1

subarea

service link text

service description

area link text

Picture

Also the area page is easy adaptable. You can change the following text elements quick and easy:Area link text, subarea header text, service link text and service description

Also the picture can be exchanged against an own picture.

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Flexibility of Area Page 2

area description header

long area description

It is als possible for customers to provide customer individual information on area pages. On the right side the customer can provide e.g. links to manuals, guide line, company defined rules such as vacation rules etc.

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Where to Customize the ESS Homepage?

The new XSS homepage concept is available since mySAP ERP 2004.

The customizing of the ESS homepage is located in the Backend system. The underlying backend system for mySAP ERP 2005 issystem ECC6.0To customize the ESS homepage go into the backend system ECC 6.0!

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Before you Start!

Make a graphical design of the areas and services you want to implement! The hierarchical relations between these elements will become apparent. Make a list of the necessary resources

We recommend you make a graphical design of the areas and services you want to implement.

This way, the hierarchical relations between these elements will become apparent.

You should also make a list of the necessary resource objects

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Graphical Design – Entities and Relations

Resource R1...Rr

Servicegroup SVG1...SVGg

Server SV1...SVs

Subarea SA1

Subarea SAm...

Header Hi

Header H1...

Areagroup AGi

Areagroup AG1...

Area A1

Area An...

Service S1

Service Sk...

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Example Graphical Design ESS Homepage Cut-out

Resource R1...Rr

Servicegroup SVG1...SVGg

Server SV1...SVs

Subarea SA1 = Benefits

Subarea SAm

Header H1

Area Group AG1 = Employee Self-Service

Area A1 = Benefits and Payment

Area An

...

Service Sm

Service Sk

...

Subarea SA1 = Payment

Service S2 = Participation Overview

Service S1 = Open Enrollment

Service S5 = Employment Verification

Service S4 =Total Compensation Statement

Service S3 = Salary Statement

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How to Find the Right Customizing Path?

IMG -> Cross-Application Components -> Homepage Framework

You can then implement this concept using the IMG activities.

For technical reasons, there are two views for the IMG activities in this section:

The first view contains SAP's standard entries. Use this view to add your own entries.

The second view contains each entry that is entered in the first view. Use this view to change SAP'sstandard entries.

The views in which you assign areas, subareas and services, and define the order in which they are displayed, are an exception. In this case you need the first view only to look up SAP entries you want to hide or extend.

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How to Customize the ESS Homepage?

Step-by-Step

1. Header definition (optional)

2. Area group definition

3. Area page definition

4. Service definition (including country-specific services)

5. Resource definition

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Header Definition (Optional for Test Purposes)

In this IMG activity, you define the header for your ESS homepage. The header contains a picture and a welcome text for the employee.

This IMG step is optional because the header picuture is only nice to have if you would like to test the ESS on the J2EE Server independent from the Enterprise Portal 6.0.

Note:Official positioning of ESS in mySAP ERP 2004 is ESS with SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0. Customers have to be aware that the integration of ESS into non-SAP Portals can only be realized through a customer project. SAP will only guarantee maintenance and support of ESS with Enterprise Portal 6.0.

Please inform your Account manager in case you would like to use ESS stand-alone!!

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Area Group: Basic Definition

In this IMG activity, you define area group pages. Area group pages contain descriptions of areas, hyperlinks to access the area pages, and hyperlinks to start services directly.

Activities:Define one area group page or Homepage for Employee Self-Service.Please note In case you have employees (employee groups) accessing different ESS Services offering you have to define for every group of employee a separate ESS homepage and a corresponding ESS Portal menu.

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Area: Basic Definition 1

In this IMG activity, you define area pages. Area pages contain services (Web applications) that are related to each other. Employees access an area page from an area group page.

Activities:You need to define at least one area page.

Example:You define an area page for all services e.g. in the Time Management area (Record Working Times, Leave Request, and so on).

Note:You group familiar ESS applications in one area page as you have already provided in your graphical design

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Area: Basic Definition 2

Two options possible:1) area description textor2) external html page

You can define additional information for your area page

Note:You have two options to provide customer individual information here:1) adding an area description text2) refering to an external html page

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Area Group / Area : Basic Definition

You define here the are description appearing on the area group page.

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Relation Between Area Group and Areas

In this IMG activity, you assign each area to an area group page and define its position.

Activities:If you want to hide an area on an area group page that has been delivered by SAP, proceed as follows:1. Look up the relevant entry in the first view of this IMG activity.2. Repeat this entry with position 0 in the second view of this IMG activity.

If you want to add your own areas to an area group page, enter the area group page in the second view of this IMG activity and assign your areas to it. This applies to area group pages delivered by SAP as well as your own area group pages.

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Subarea: Basic Definition

In this IMG activity, you define subareas. Areas and subareas can be compared to headings and subheadings in a document. You use subareas to group the services that belong to an area on the screen.

Activities:You need to define at least one subarea per area.

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Relation Between Area and Subareas

In this IMG activity, you assign subareas to area pages and define their position.

Activities:If you want to hide a subarea on an area page that has been delivered by SAP, proceed as follows:1. Look up the relevant entry in the first view of this IMG activity.2. Repeat this entry with position 0 in the second view of this IMG activity.

If you want to add your own subareas to an area page, enter the area page in the second view of this IMG activity and assign your subareas to it. This applies to area pages delivered by SAP as well as your own area pages.

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Service: Basic Definition

In this IMG activity, you define the services (e.g. Web Dynpro applications) that are to appear on the area pages. For each service you define, a hyperlink and a short description will appear on the related area page.

Employees use this link to start the service.

You can make numerous settings to define where and how the hyperlink to the service will appear such as emphasize the service

Service Types:The homepage framework supports the following service types and expects entries in this view as indicated below:1. BSP: Service build with BSP2. ITS: ITS-based service3. WEBDYNPRO: Web Dynpro application

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Definition of Country Specific Services

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In this IMG activity, you define country-specific services. When an employee starts a service, the systemdetermines the employee's country grouping and checks if there is a country-specific service definition in the V_T7XSSSERSRVCG and V_T7XSSSERSRVCGC views.If there is a country-specific service definition, the system uses this definition.If there is no country-specific service definition, the system uses the general service definition in the V_T7XSSSERSRV and V_T7XSSSERSRVC views. If the general service definition does not contain a resource object, the system does not display the service (see example 2).This enables you to define country-specific variations of services for certain countries while using a general service definition containing a resource object with more international character for all other countries.Example 1:Your company has employees in five different countries:Germany (01); Austria (02); Switzerland (03); Canada (07) and USA (10) - (Number in brackets = country grouping)The service for displaying SAP standard salary statement is the same for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. For Canada and the USA, you have developed a customer specific service with additional content.You define a general service for displaying the salary statement in the V_T7XSSSERSRV and V_T7XSSSERSRVC views referring to the corresponding Resource Object of the Standard Salary statement service. Furthermore you define two additional services for the country groupings 07 and 10 in the V_T7XSSSERSRVCG and V_T7XSSSERSRVCGC views containing the Resource object for your customer specific salary statement Service.When an employee from Germany, Austria or Switzerland starts the service for displaying salary statements, the system uses the service definition in the V_T7XSSSERSRV and V_T7XSSSERSRVC views.When an employee from Canada or the USA starts the service for displaying salary statements, the system uses the customer service definition in the V_T7XSSSERSRVCG and V_T7XSSSERSRVCGC views.

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Example 2Your company has employees in two different countries:Germany (01) and Switzerland (03) (Number in brackets = country grouping)There is a service that is only relevant for employees from Switzerland.You define a general service without a resource object in the V_T7XSSSERSRV and V_T7XSSSERSRVC views.You define a country-specific service with a resource object for country grouping 03 in the V_T7XSSSERSRVCG and V_T7XSSSERSRVCGC views. This service is only displayed for employees in Switzerland.

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Relation Between Subarea and Services

In this IMG activity, you assign each service to a subarea and define its position.

Activities:If you want to hide a service in a subarea that has been delivered by SAP, proceed as follows:1. Look up the relevant entry in the first view of this IMG activity2. Repeat this entry with position 0 in the second view of this IMG activity.

If you want to add your own services to a subarea, enter the subarea in the second view of this IMG activity and assign your services to it. This applies to subareas delivered by SAP as well as your own subareas.

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Resource Definition

In this IMG activity, you define resources to be used in area group pages and area pages.’In the homepage framework, you define various pages that the system displays in the Web browser. These pages contain objects of different types such as Texts, Pictures, Services (Web Applications) and Uniform Resource Locators (URL)In terms of the homepage framework, each of these objects is a resource. Resources can be reused throughout the pages you define. When you define a URL for a resource, you need to provide the relevant content at the location the URL refers to.

The resources you define here will be available in the input help of the other IMG activities. We recommend you choose meaningful technical names and short descriptions for the resources.

Note that certain fields in this IMG activity only apply to certain types of resources. Example: If the resource object is a service, it makes sense to enter URL parameters. If the resource object is a picture file, it does not make sense to enter URL parameters.

Service Types:

The homepage framework supports the following service types and expects entries in this view as indicated below. Please note the service type was defined in the service definition IMG step:

BSP: Service build with BSPDirectory Path: No entryObject Name: BSP-Application/BSP-Page

ITS: ITS-based serviceDirectory Path: No entryObject Name: ITS-Application

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PORTALPAGE: Call a Portal page (PCD)Directory Path: No entryObject Name: No entryEnter the absolute URL of the page in the URL of PCD Page field

URL: Direct URL launched in a separate windowYou can either enter the relevant parts of the URL in the Directory Path and Object Name fields or enter an absolute URL in the URL of PCD Page field.

WEBDYNPRO: Web Dynpro applicationDirectory Path: Vendor/DC-NameObject Name: Web Dynpro application

In addition to these entries, you need to enter the PCD page that starts a service in the SAP Enterprise Portal. This applies to all service types.

Example:The service that lets employees display and change their skills profile is a Web Dynpro application. For this service, the following entries are necessary in the fields mentioned above:

Object Name: SkillsApplication

Directory Path: sap.com/ess~skl

URL of PCD Page: ROLES://portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.ess/pages/com.sap.pct.employee.CareerServices

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Integration of EIC Into ESS

You have already implemented EIC and now you would like to activate the corresponding EIC services.

Within the standard homepage customizing the following EIC services are delivered!

EIC Authentication Service: By using this services employee can enter, change or delete their authentication data for the Employee Interaction CenterHelp Desk service (callable within all ESS services!)This service have to be activated within every ESS service

Enter, change, or delete your authentication data for the Employee Interaction Center

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Integration of EIC Into ESS – EIC Authentication Service

In the standard ESS homepage this service is available via ESS area page ‘Personal Information’

Enter, change, or delete your authentication data for the Employee Interaction Center

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Integration of EIC Into ESS – EIC Authentication Service

The Service is allocated to the subarea ‘Personal Information’which is itself allocated to the area group page ‘Personal Information’

ServiceSubarea

Enter, change, or delete your authentication data for the Employee Interaction Center

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Integration of EIC Into ESS – Help Desk Service

The EIC help desk service can be integrated in every ESS service

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Integration of EIC Into ESS – Help Desk Service

In the standard homepagecustomizing the corresponding EIC Help desk service is marked as Help Service – This means that this service can be activated as ‘Help Service’in every ESS service

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Integration of EIC Into ESS – Help Desk Service

Activate EIC Help Desk service in ESS service ‘Bank Information’: Allocate the EIC help desk service ‘EIC_SERVICE_REQUEST to the corresponding ESS service ‘EMPLOYEE_PERSINFO_BANK05’.

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Portal Page and Homepage Framework

The ESS Business Package (ERP 2005) contains Several Portal pages for calling the ESS area group and area pages (ECC6.0) (workset) and ESS applications. To every Portal page one iview is allocated.

Services in the Portal are represented by one Portal page and one appropriate iview.

For every ESS service one Portal page and one iview are delivered. Also an ESS service is defined via homepage framework customizing in the ECC 6.0 backend system. The function of the iview is among other things to render the application in the Portal environment and to benefit of Portal features like Web Dynpro personalization.

For the Area group page and for every Area page one Portal page and one iview are delivered. The iview refer to the homepage Web Dynpro application and is responsible for the portal navigation.

New in ESS Business Package ERP 2005:Additional iviews and corresponding portal pages representing ESS services

With ESS Business Package ERP 2004 one Portal page including a generic iview was delivered -> with ERP 2005 for every ESS service one iview and corresponding portal page is delivered which replace the one portal page/generic iview concept.

Note:You have to implement the ESS Business Package according to the guidelines defined for Portal Content by SAPNetWeaver. Please see more information on how to do this on the SAPNetWeaver pages.

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Portal Content Administration of BP ESS

Portal content structure of the ESS Business package in ERP 2005

The Portal content structure includes•Iviews, •Pages, •Roles, •Transport packages and •Workset objects

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Portal Content Administration of BP ESS

Portal content structure of pages delivered with the Business Package for ESS in ERP 2005

With the ESS Business Package pages for Area Group (Homepage)Areas (Worksets) andESS services Area groupAre delivered

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Relationship Portal Content Objects – HomepageObjects

RoleWorkset n = Portal page = Area group page

Workset 2 = Portal page = Area pageWorkset 1 = Portal page = Area page

Portalpage n

Portalpage 1

Iview = ESS service

Iview = ESS service

Iview = ESS Area page

Portal Content objects: bluehomepage objects: red

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Portal Page and Homepage Framework

Enterprise Portal ECC 6.0 –Backend system

ESS HomepageCustomizing

Connection homepage objects and portal content objects

Page for ESS area page ‘Address Book’

Page for – ESS serviceAddress Book (Who’s Who)

You need one page for calling the ESS homepage applications (Area group page and the Area page)

You need for every single application one page

For every defined page a corresponding iview is defined!

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Portal Content and Homepage Framework Relationship

You have to link the correspondingPCD Location URL extracted from the Portal Employee Self-Service Roles definition to the corresponding Resource objects defined via the Homepage FrameworkExample here shows the Resource Definition for Area page ‘Working Time’ in Backend system ECC6.0 and the corresponding URL.

ROLES://portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.ess.employee/com.sap.pct.ess.roles/com.sap.pct.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.ess.area_working_time/com.sap.pct.ess.area_working_time

How can you link the objects defined via Homepage Framework to the objects definedIn the Portal Content administration?

In the IMG step Resource definition for every area page and service a resource entry is defined. The relation to the appropriate Portal page and iview is maintained under parameter PCD location. The URL delivered in the standard is referring to the corresponding standard delivered ESS portal iview PCD location.

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Relation Resource Objects – Portal Content Page

Resource Definition for Area page ‘Address Book’ in ECC 6.0

You will find the PCD location of the corresponding Portal object here (this folder contains the absolute URL-path of the role!):

Go to Content Administration -> End User Content -> Employee Self-Service -> Roles -> Select ‘Employee Self-Service’ and click right mouse button menu to open the objects in the ‘Edit area’. Under Role ESS you will find all Portal Worksets delivered with the ESS Business Package. Every Worksetcontains pages for the area page and pages for ESS services. One Workset contains one ‘overview’ page representing the Area group page. To view the parameter ‘PCD location’ of one object select ‘Show all’under Property Category.

One page-iview combination is responsible for the homepage navigation (and is of course also related to the homepage framework in the backend)

One page-iview combination is relevant for starting the ESS services. For every single ESS service, one page-iview combination exist. You have to link the corresponding portal object PCD location (URL) defined in the portal role URL for every ESS service to the corresponding resource object in the Homepage framework.

Note: You need Portal Content Administration authorization to access the Portal Content Administration tools

Please take into account that as of ERP 2005 you need one page and one iview representing ESS Services. This is different in comparison with EPR2004!!! See also slide 33.

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Relation Resource Objects – Portal Content Page

Resource Definition for Area page ‘Address Book’ in ECC 6.0

portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.roles/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_employee_search/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.whoiswho

ROLES://portal_content/com.sap.pct/every_user/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.bp_folder/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.roles/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.employee_self_service/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.area_employee_search/com.sap.pct.erp.ess.whoiswho

You will find the PCD location of the corresponding Portal object here (this folder contains the absolute URL-path of the role!):

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How to Set-up an ESS Homepage/Area Group Page

Area Group Key defined in the backend-system ECC5.0

How to allocate the Area group Key (homepage) to the

corresponding Portal object???

You may have defined your own homepage via Homepage framework customizing and you would like to allocate this homepage definition to the corresponding Portal content objects.

To create your own homepage you have to define an area group key.After this you have to change the parameters of the corresponding Portal objects.

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Allocate Area Group key to Portal Iview ‘Overview’

In case you have defined your own ESS area group page (ESS Portal overview page). You have to allocate the ‘Area group key’ you defined in the ECC 6.0 system to the corresponding ESS Portal overview page iview. How to do this?Go to Portal Content -> End User Content -> Employee Self-Service -> IviewsSelect the iview of the Overview page (right mouse button -> Edit object). Assign your area group key in field Application Parameters like following:sap.xss.menuargrp=<customer defined area group key>.

Note:

The parameter for sap.xss.menuhdr=SAPDEFAULT symbolizes the Header definition. This parameter become redundant by using ESS in the Enterprise Portal. You can simply remove this parameter!

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Allocate Area Group key and Area Group to PortalWorksets

1.2.

In case you have defined own ESS area groups (e.g. for Personal Information, Working Time etc.) you have to allocate the ‘Area key’ you defined in the ECC 6.0 system for your ESS area pages to the corresponding ESS Portal page iviews

How to do this?Go to Portal Content -> End User Content -> Employee Self-Services-> IviewsSelect the iview of the Portal page e.g. Employee Search (right mouse button -> Edit object). Assign 1. The area group key in field Application Parameters like following:sap.xss.menuargrp=<customer defined area group key>.2. The area key in field Application Parameter like following:sap.xss.menuarea= <customer defined area key>

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Entities and Relations With Corresponding Views

Resource R1...Rr

Servicegroup SVG1...SVGg

Server SV1...SVs

Subarea SA1

Subarea SAm...

Header Hi

Header H1...

Areagroup AGi

Areagroup AG1...

Area A1

Area An...

Service S1

Service Sk...

VIEW V_T7XSSSERARG

VIEW V_T7XSSSERAR

VIEW V_T7XSSSERSAR

VIEW V_T7XSSSERSRVCG

VIEW V_T7XSSSERHEB

VIEW V_T7XSSSERARGB

VIEW V_T7XSSSERARB

VIEW V_T7XSSSERSARB

VIEW V_T7XSSSERSRV

VIEW V_T7XSSSERSRVG

VIEW V_T7XSSSERRES

VIEW V_T7XSSSERSDB

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All Views at a Glance

VIEW (SAP) Description V_T7XSSSERHEB Basic Header definition V_T7XSSSERARGB Basic Areagroup definition V_T7XSSSERARB Basic Area definition V_T7XSSSERSARB Basic Subarea definition V_T7XSSSERSRV Basic Service definition V_T7XSSSERSRVCG Definition of country specific services V_T7XSSSERSRVG Basic Servicegroup definition V_T7XSSSERARG Areagroup definition: Grouping of Areas V_T7XSSSERAR Area definition: Grouping of subareasV_T7XSSSERSAR Subarea definition: Grouping of services V_T7XSSSERRES Resource object definition

VIEW (Customer) DescriptionV_T7XSSSERHEBC Basic Header definition customer V_T7XSSSERARGBC Basic Areagroup definition customer V_T7XSSSERARBC Basic Area definition customer V_T7XSSSERSARBC Basic Subarea definition customer V_T7XSSSERSRVC Basic Service definition customer V_T7XSSSERSRVCGC Definition of country specific services customerV_T7XSSSERSRVGC Basic Servicegroup definition customerV_T7XSSSERARGC Areagroup definition: Grouping of Areas customerV_T7XSSSERARC Area definition: Grouping of subareas customerV_T7XSSSERSARC Subarea definition: Grouping of services customerV_T7XSSSERRESC Resource object definition customer V_T7XSSSERSDB Server definition

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