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1 What's New: SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Projects, Project
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Overview of the new and enhanced features of SAP S/4HANA Cloud for
projects, project collaboration release.
What's New in 2203 Release
Feature Description Type Role
Project Service API The Geo-Coordinates field has been added to the
Project Service API . You can read and update the ex isting
geo-coordinate data associated with a particular project, using the
API.
During the project creation phase, you can also enter the
geo-coordinate details, using the API.
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Task Service API Authorized users can per form the following
operations using the Task Service API.
View and update exist ing authorizations de fined for a
task
Assign new authoriza tions for a task
Delete authorizations for a task
Note You can authorize a user or group of users. The authorizations
of project parnters is not yet availa ble.
For more details, see Task Service API .
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Project Partner Service API You can now invite users to a project,
using Project Partner Service API . You can per form the
following:
Invite a user who is al ready onboarded to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud
for projects, project collab oration, to a specific project
Invite a user who is not onboarded to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud for
projects, project collab oration, to a project
For more details, see Invite Users to a Project.
Enhancement All users
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Manage Business Systems Available for a Particular
Sub-Account
Company administrators can now define which business systems will
be active. The status of the business sys tems is displayed in the
Business Systems tab of the System Configuration app.
You can navigate to the de tails of a particular business system
in the System Configuration app, and then select the Is Active
checkbox to mark that system as ac tive.
Note You can access the System Configuration app by navigating
to
SAP Fiori Launchpad
Business
Configuration .
The users within a project will be able to create related ob jects
only referring to the ac tive business systems.
For more details, see System Configuration for Related Ob
jects.
Enhancement Company Administrator
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Technical User Flow (Client Credential Flow) is Available for
Public APIs
You can now configure a technical user for a particular company,
for usage with pub lic APIs. Currently, using the Project Service
API , a technical user for a particular company can perform the
following:
Get a list of all the projects the company participates in
Get the header details of all individual projects the company
participates in
Note For the technical user to view project related de tails in an
API call, at least one employee of the technical user's com pany
must have read au thorization to the project.
For details on how to config ure a technical user flow for a
particular company, see Set ting up and Using Technical User Flow
for Public APIs.
New Company Administrator
Improved Performance for Project List
The performance of the project list UI has been opti mized. The
time taken to load a project list having a large number of
projects, is now reduced.
Optimization All users
Note For information on features developed and enhanced in previous
releases, refer Features of Previous Releases [page 7].
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2 Features of Previous Releases
Note For features relevant for the current release, refer What's
New: SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Projects, Project Collaboration [page
3].
What's New in 2202 Release
Feature Description Type Role
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Migration of data from the Manage Financial Views app to the
successor app is not planned.
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Change in Email Address of Automated Notifications
Automated email notifica tions generated by SAP S/ 4HANA Cloud for
projects, project collaboration will no longer be sent from the
pin-
[email protected] email address. New notifica tions will
be sent from cloud- for-projects-notifica
[email protected] email ad
dress.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
My Digital Twins The integration between SAP Enterprise Product
Develop ment cloud solution and SAP S/4HANA Cloud for projects,
project collaboration, is now possible. After integration, on
importing a digital twin model file to the My Digital Twins app,
the visualization object will additionally be created in SAP
Enterprise Product Development.
After a digital twin model file is successfully imported to the My
Digital Twins app, a link to view the visualization object on SAP
Enterprise Product Development will be available in the Related
Objects section of the digital twin.
Note All existing function
alities associated with the My Digital Twins app will re main the
same even without a SAP En terprise Product De velopment sub
scription.
For a given project, the visualization data imported to Enterprise
Product Development will be stored in the tenant of the company
that is the owner of the collaboration project.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Example Company A, Company B, and Company C are part of a col
laboration project. Com pany A is the collaboration project owner
and SAP Enter prise Product Development is set up in the
sub-account of Company A. All digital twin visu alization mod els
will be im ported to the SAP Enterprise Product Devel opment
tenant of Company A. If companies B or C import a visualization
model, the visu alization will be stored in the SAP Enterprise
Product Devel opment tenant of Company A.
Since the visualiza tion data is stored in the SAP Enterprise
Product Develop ment tenant of the collaboration owner, only the
users be longing to the col laboration owner's company can view
the links to the visu alization objects
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Feature Description Type Role
found in Related Objects section of the digital twin.
As the visualization data is stored in the collaboration own er's
SAP Enterprise Product Develop ment tenant, even if the users
belonging to the other compa nies but participat ing in the same
project, import model documents, they will not be able to access
the visual ization in their com pany specific SAP Enterprise
Product Development ten ants.
If you want to use the addi tional functionalities pro vided by
SAP Enterprise Product Development, ac countspecific
configurations are needed for the existing and newly created
projects. For more information on how to configure SAP Enterprise
Product Development SaaS, see Integration with SAP En terprise
Product Develop ment SaaS.
Manage Projects The Description field has been added to the Manage
Projects application. It is available in the project header.
In the Description field, you can view/update additional
information about a particu lar project.
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Feature Description Type Role
Project Service API The Description field has been added to the
Project Service API . You can read and update the existing de
scription associated with a particular project, using the
API.
During the project creation phase, you can also enter the
description, using the API.
Enhancement All users
Create a new project by copying existing project
You can create a new project by copying the following ele ments
from a source project.
Document repository folder structure
Legal documents associ ated with the source project
User groups without the assigned users, defined for the source
project
Project authorizations assigned to user groups, defined for the
source project
Note The roles and permis sions required to copy a project
are:
Business Administrator role assigned in SAP BTP cockpit
Edit Project Header permission as signed to the user, for a
particular project
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Feature Description Type Role
Project Service API You can now create a new project by copying a
source project, using Project Service API .
The following elements from the source project are cop ied:
Document repository folder structure
Legal documents associ ated with the source project
User groups without the assigned users, defined for the source
project
Project authorizations assigned to user groups, defined for the
source project
Enhancement All users
Project Partner Service API You can now invite compa nies to a
project, using Project Partner Service API
. You can perform the fol lowing:
Invite a company that is not already onboarded to SAP S/4HANA Cloud
for projects, project col laboration
Invite a company that is already participating in a project in SAP
S/4HANA Cloud for projects, project collaboration, to another
project
For more information, see In vite Companies to a Project.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Reference Service API You can now query for refer ences between a
digital twin and its corresponding visuali zation object in SAP
Enter prise Product Development, using the Reference Service API .
The visualization ob ject ID that is derived by us ing the
Reference Service API, can be used to consume other visualization
APIs sup ported by SAP Enterprise Product Development.
For more information, see Get References Between a Digital Twin and
Visualiza tions In SAP Enterprise Prod uct Development.
Enhancement All users
Feature Description Type Role
Digital Twin You can now view the details of a digital twin by
choosing the Show Details button.
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Company Role Details Added Along with the name of the company that
is displayed in multiple areas of Project Collaboration, you can
now also view the role details as sociated with that
company.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Document Service API Authorized users can per form the following
operations using the Document Service API.
View the existing author izations on a group for a document, link,
and folder.
Assign authorizations to a group for a document, link, and
folder.
Delete authorizations from a group for a docu ment, link, and
folder.
Enhancement All users
Feature Description Type Role
New product page The product documentation for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
for projects, project collaboration has been moved to a new product
page. You can access it here: https://help.sap.com/proj ectscloud.
The https:// help.sap.com/viewer/prod uct/SAP_PROJECT_INTELLI
GENCE_NETWORK/1.0/en- US product page is now ob solete.
New All users
Merged administration guide The Security Guide and Inte gration
Guide have been merged with the Administra tion Guide. Please
refer to the Administration Guide to ac cess information related
to security and integration for SAP S/4HANA Cloud for projects,
project collaboration.
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Language support All project collaboration apps and in-app help are
now available in the following lan guages:
Chinese simplified French Japanese Portuguese Russian
New All users
Manage documents You can drag and drop a folder with all its
contents from your local file system to the Manage Documents ap
plication.
Note You can drag and drop only one folder at a time. It isn’t
possible to drag and drop folders and files together.
Enhancement All users
Project Service API Authorized users can assign project functions
to various users and groups in a spe cific project using the
Project Service API.
Note The API to assign project functions is not yet avail able on
the SAP API Business Hub (https:// api.sap.com/api/Project
ServiceV2/resource ).
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Configure SAP Enterprise Product Development sys tem
Company administrators can configure the SAP Enterprise Product
Development sys tem for their company ac counts in the System
Configuration application. They can access the applica
tion by navigating to SAP
Fiori Launchpad Business
Configuration .
Note Object types for the SAP Enterprise Product Development system
are predefined. It is not pos sible to create object types for the
SAP Enterprise Product Development system.
Users can select the config ured SAP Enterprise Product
Development system and its corresponding object types, while
creating related ob jects.
For more information, refer System Configuration for Re lated
Objects.
Enhancement Company administrator
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Feature Description Type Role
Digital Twin Service API
Using the Digital Twin Service API, authorized users can retrieve
the ID of a document that is imported into a digital twin.
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Feature Description Type Role
Product Name Change SAP Project Intelligence Network has been
renamed to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for projects, project
collaboration.
The component LOD-ECO- PIN has been replaced with the component
PPM-CLD- COL.
Note Please raise your tickets using the component PPM-CLD-COL. The
component LOD-ECO- PIN is now obsolete.
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Digital Twin Type Configura tion
Company administrators can configure digital twin types for their
company accounts in the Digital Twin Type Configuration
application. They can access the applica
tion by navigating to Fiori
Launchpad Business
Configuration .
Users can select the config ured digital twin types, while
creating digital twins in the My Digital Twins application.
Note A digital twin type will be available for selection in the
Create Digital Twin di alog only if it is defined as visible in
the Digital Twin Type Configuration application.
For detailed information, re fer Digital Twin Type Configu
ration.
New Company administrator
Role filter in the User Management application
To simplify the management of users, only application- based roles
are displayed in the User Management appli cation.
The technical roles and ac countspecific roles are not displayed
anymore.
Enhancement Company administrator
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Feature Description Type Role
Project Service API Authorized users can do the following using the
Project Service API.
Retrieve the list of project functions as signed to various users
and groups in a specific project.
Unassign project func tions from a group or user for a given
project.
Enhancement All users
Feature Description Type Role
Product Name Change SAP Project Intelligence Network has been
renamed to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for projects, project
collaboration.
The component LOD-ECO- PIN has been replaced with the component
PPM-CLD- COL.
Note Please raise your tickets using the component PPM-CLD-COL. The
component LOD-ECO- PIN is now obsolete.
New All users
Improved invitation email The system sends out spe cific emails to
invited users based on the current user status. For example, if a
user has an account on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud for projects, project
collaboration system, the system sends out an email with just a
link to the corresponding SAP BTP ac count.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Improved administrator invi tation notification
The project name, project ID, and the name and company of the
person who has cre ated the invitation has been added to the
invitation notifi cation email for the adminis trator.
Enhancement All users
Document Service API Authorized users can upload large files using
the Document Service API.
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Feature Description Type Role
Enhanced Filters in Manage Tasks
You can select multiple filter values for the Status, Type, Tags,
and Category attrib utes. The system displays all tasks that are
assigned to at least one of the selected val ues.
Enhancement All users
Enhanced Filters in Manage Issues
You can select multiple filter values for the Status and Cat egory
attributes. The system displays all issues that are assigned to at
least one of the selected values.
Enhancement All users
Assign Tags to Tasks You can assign tags to tasks on the Task
Details page. You can filter tasks by the tags on the Manage Tasks
page.
Enhancement All users
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Absolute Numbers for the Is sue and Task KPIs
The percentual KPIs for Open Issues and Open Tasks have been
changed to absolute numbers. In addition, a navi gation has been
added to dis play overdue tasks and is sues.
Enhancement All users
Digital Twin Service API
Authorized users can man age digital twins in a project using the
Digital Twin Service API. Users can perform the following opera
tions using the Digital Twin Service API.
Read the digital twins for a project.
Create a digital twin (top node).
Update the metadata of a digital twin.
For information on how to ac cess the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Net work. The APIs for SAP Project
Intelligence Network are available only for custom ers with a
commercial sub scription. Freemium custom ers can't use the
APIs.
Note The Digital Twin Service API is not yet available on the SAP
API Business Hub (https:// api.sap.com/package/
SAPProjectIntelligence Network ).
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Feature Description Type Role
Project Service API Authorized users can man age groups in a
project using the Project Service API. Users can perform the
following operations using the Project Service API.
Create a group in a project.
Add a new user to a group that belongs to a specific project.
Remove a user from a group that belongs to a specific
project.
Update the name of a group.
Note The API to manage groups in a project is not yet available on
the SAP API Business Hub (https:// api.sap.com/api/Project
Service/resource ).
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Cloud Integration Package for SAP S/4HANA Project System
This content package pro vides an integration iFlow to read
project planning ele ments from SAP S/4HANA Project System
(PS).
The detailed information and content package are availa ble at
https://api.sap.com/ package/SAPProjectIntelli
genceNetworkIntegration withSAPS4HANA?sec tion=Overview .
New All users
Document Service API Authorized users can get the details of a
document using the version series ID of the document. For
information about version series ID, refer
http://docs.oasis-open.org/ cmis/CMIS/v1.1/CMIS- v1.1.html .
For information on how to ac cess the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Net work.
Note The APIs for SAP Project Intelligence Network are available
only for cus tomers with a commer cial subscription. Free mium
customers can't use the APIs.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Export to Excel You can export the header data of the following
busi ness objects to an Excel:
Projects on the My Projects page
Project Plans on the Manage Project Plans page
Tasks on the Manage Tasks page
Note Business objects are ex ported based on the fil ter you have
applied.
New All users
Create Subtasks within Tasks You can create subtasks within a task
in the Task References section on the Task Details page. You can
ei ther create a new action or new check as a subtask. You can
assign subtasks to users. For more information, refer Manage
Subtasks.
New All users
Manage Documents The following statuses have been added in the
Document Status dropdown on the document details page:
In Process Ready for Review Reviewed Ready for Approval Approved
with condi
tions Revision required Obsolete Replaced To be Deleted
On the UI, the field Labels on the search and filter panel has been
renamed to Tags.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Assign Tags to Issues You can assign tags to issues on the Issue
Details page. You can filter issues by the tags on the Manage
Issues page.
New All users
Geo-Coordinates for Projects On the Project Details page, you can
add geo-coordinates to indicate the physical loca tion of a
project.
Enhancement All users
My Digital Twins You can reference docu ments to digital twin
objects on the digital twin object de tails page.
Enhancement All users
Related Objects You can reference related ob jects to digital twin
objects on the digital twin object de tails page.
For more information, refer System Configuration for Re lated
Objects.
Enhancement All users
Project Service API Authorized users can retrieve the list of
user-created groups in a project using the Project Service
API.
For information on how to ac cess the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Net work. The APIs for SAP Project
Intelligence Network are available only for custom ers with a
commercial sub scription. Freemium custom ers can't use the
APIs.
Note The API to retrieve the list of user-created groups in a
project is not yet available on the SAP API Business Hub (https://
api.sap.com/api/Project Service/resource ).
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Business Partner Service API
Authorized users can retrieve the list of companies and users who
have been on boarded to SAP Project Intelligence Network using the
Business Partner Service API.
Note You can retrieve only those companies and users who have
enabled the visibility for invita tions.
The Business Partner Service API is not yet available on the SAP
API Business Hub (https:// api.sap.com/package/
SAPProjectIntelligenceNet work ).
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Document Service API Authorized users can update various properties
of a docu ment, such as the document status, description, using
the Document Service API.
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Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
System Configuration for Re lated Objects
Company administrators can configure business systems and object
types for their company accounts in the System Configuration appli
cation. They can access the application by navigating to
SAP Fiori Launchpad
Business Configuration .
Note You can create object types only for external systems
(third-party sys tems). Object types for systems within SAP are
predefined.
Users can select the config ured systems and object types, while
creating related objects.
For more information, refer System Configuration for Re lated
Objects.
New Company Administrator
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Feature Description Type Role
Manage Documents You can create documents without any file contents
on the Manage Documents, Task Details, and Issue Details pa ges.
You can upload a file to a document without any file content on the
Manage Documents page at a later point in time. A new version of a
document is created when you upload a file to a document without
any file content.
Note You can't upload a file to a document without any file content
on the Task Details and Issue Details pages.
You can reference docu ments without any file con tents to tasks,
issues, and re lated objects.
Enhancement All users
Export to Excel You can export the following business objects along
with their metadata to an Excel:
Digital twins on the My Digital Twins page
Project partners (com panies) on the Manage Project Partners
page
Users of a project part ner on the Project Partner Details
page
Note Business objects are ex ported based on the fil ter you have
applied.
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Feature Description Type Role
Central Fiori Launchpad The Fiori Launchpad content has been
adapted so that it can be integrated with other solutions and
applications in the Central Fiori Launchpad.
For more information, refer SAP Launchpad Service/ Integrating
Business Con tent.
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Issue Service API Authorized users can man age issues in a project
using the Issue Service API. Users can perform the fol lowing
operations using the Issue Service API:
Retrieve issues and is sue details for the log ged-in user.
Create a new issue. Update the header at
tributes of an issue.
For information on how to ac cess the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Net work. The APIs for SAP Project
Intelligence Network are available only for custom ers with a
commercial sub scription. Freemium custom ers can't use the
APIs.
Note The Issue Service API is available on the SAP API Business Hub
(https:// api.sap.com/api/Issue Service/resource ).
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Feature Description Type Role
Project Partner Service API
Authorized users can retrieve the details about a project partner
using the Project Partner Service API.
Note The Project Partner Service API is not yet available on the
SAP API Business Hub (https:// api.sap.com/package/
SAPProjectIntelligence Network ).
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Project Service API Authorized users can upload legal documents
(data pri vacy statement and terms of use) to a project using the
Project Service API.
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Feature Description Type Role
Manage Documents Users can search documents and links using the
file names and file extensions.
Note The File Type filter attrib ute has been removed from the
search and fil ter panel.
Enhancement All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Task Service API The following operations have been added to the
Task Service API. Users must have either the Full Control or
Process permis sion on a task to perform the following operations
on the task.
Set the status and de fine progress for a task.
Assign a processor to a task.
For information on how to ac cess the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Net work.
Note The Task Service API is available on the SAP API Business Hub
(https://api.sap.com/
). The APIs for SAP Project Intelligence Network are available only
for customers with a commercial subscrip tion. Freemium custom
ers can't use the APIs.
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Feature Description Type Role
Reference Service API Users can manage refer ences between objects
in SAP Project Intelligence Network us ing APIs.
Users can manage re lated objects using APIs.
Users can perform the fol lowing operations using the Reference
Service API:
Create a related object. Update a related object. Read related
objects for
a project. Create, read, and re
move references be tween the following ob jects: Issues and tasks
Issues and docu
ments Issues and project
ments Tasks and project
issues Related objects and
tasks Related objects and
documents Related objects and
For information about related objects, refer Related Ob
jects.
Note The Reference Service API is not yet available on the SAP API
Business Hub (https:// api.sap.com/ ). The APIs for SAP Project
Intelligence Network are available only for cus
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Feature Description Type Role
tomers with a commer cial subscription. Free mium customers can't
use the APIs.
What's New in 2102 Release
Feature Description Type Role
Related Objects Users can manage related objects for documents and
tasks.
Note The External Object References section on the UI has been
renamed to Related Objects.
Enhance ment
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Document Manage ment
Users can rename documents after they have been added. Once you
rename a document, a new version of the document gets
created.
Enhance ment
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Usability Improve ments
The Authorization section of the Document Management applica tion
is now consistent with the Authorization sections of the other
objects in SAP Project Intelligence Network.
Enhance ment
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Issue Management On the Manage Issues page, users can export issues
along with their respective attributes to an Excel.
Users can view the issue ID when they assign an issue to an object
in SAP Project Intelligence Network.
Enhance ment
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Inherit Permissions While adding, editing, or removing
authorizations (to users or groups) from a folder, users can choose
whether they want to propagate the permission changes to the child
objects of the folder or not.
Enhance ment
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Feature Description Type Role
Task Service API
Users can manage tasks in SAP Project Intelligence Network us ing
APIs. Users can perform the following operations using the Task
Service API:
Read tasks for the logged-in user. Create a new task. Read the
details about a task. Update the header attributes of a task.
For information on how to access the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Network.
The Task Service API is not yet available on the SAP API
Business Hub (https://api.sap.com/ ).
Note The APIs for SAP Project Intelligence Network are available
only for customers with a commercial subscription. Free mium
customers cannot use the APIs.
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Rebranding of SAP Cloud Platform
The SAP Cloud Platform brand is retired. The platform for the In
telligent Enterprise is now called SAP Business Technology Platform
(SAP BTP).
For more information, see the blog post A Robust Platform for RISE
with SAP .
The relevant terms have been updated in the documentation for SAP
Project Intelligence Network. Here is an overview of the
changes.
Old Term Rebranded To
SAP BTP, Neo environment
SAP Document service
SAP Cloud Platform Connec tivity / SAP Cloud Platform Cloud
Connector
SAP Connectivity service
SAP Cloud Platform Portal SAP Cloud Portal service
SAP Cloud Platform Identity Provider
SAP Platform Identity Provider service for SAP BTP
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Feature Description Type Role
Document Links On the Manage Documents page, users can add referen
ces to the documents stored outside SAP Project Intelligence
Network by add ing URL links. Users can also rename and edit the
existing URL links.
Note When you modify the document links, new ver sions don't get
created.
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External Object References Users can assign the ex isting external
object ref erences to projects/ issues.
Users can unassign the external object referen ces from projects/
issues.
Users can manage ex ternal object references for issues.
It is possible to modify the Name, URL, and Description of an
exter nal object reference. The uniqueness of an exter nal object
reference is determined by the com bination of External ID and
URL.
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Feature Description Type Role
User Management Users can be deacti vated and activated un der
User Management in the Account Management applica tion. Once a
user gets deactivated, the system removes the role collec tion
assigned to the user. Deactivated users can't access any appli
cation of this account.
Note It is not possible to edit or deactivate your own user.
You can reactivate the deactivated users and assign role
collections to them.
The status Added has been added for the users who are not active
members of any project in SAP Project Intelligence Network.
Note It is possible to de lete users who have the status
Added.
New Company Administrator
Project Service API Using the Project Service API, authorized users
can delete projects that have the status To be deleted.
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Feature Description Type Role
Document Service API The following operations have been added to
the Document Service API. These operations are not yet available on
the SAP API Business Hub.
Update the folder name and description.
Retrieve the details about all versions of a document.
Retrieve the file content of a specific version of a
document.
Retrieve the URL link de tails.
Create a URL link. Update a URL link. Check out a document. Check
in a document. Cancel checkout.
The APIs for the following op erations are available on the SAP
API Business Hub (https://api.sap.com/ ):
Create a document or folder.
Retrieve all documents within a project (meta data).
Download the contents of a document.
Retrieve the properties of a document or folder.
Retrieve the child ob jects of a specific folder (metadata).
For information on how to ac cess the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Net work.
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Feature Description Type Role
External Object Ref erences
For a project, users can add references to external objects by
specifying the External ID, Name, URL, and Description of the ex
ternal objects. The URL links direct users to the objects outside
SAP Project Intelligence Network.
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Project Service API
Users can manage collaboration projects in SAP Project Intelligence
Network using APIs. Users can perform the following operations
using the Project Service API:
Read projects for the logged-in user. Create a new project. Read a
project. Update the project header attributes.
The Project Service API is available on the SAP API Busi
ness Hub (https://api.sap.com/ ). For information on how to access
the APIs, refer APIs for SAP Project Intelligence Network.
Note The APIs for SAP Project Intelligence Network are available
only for customers with a commercial subscription. Free mium
customers cannot use the APIs.
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Document Service API
Users can manage documents in SAP Project Intelligence Network
using APIs. Users can perform the following operations using the
Document Service API:
Create a document or folder. Retrieve all documents within a
project (metadata). Download the contents of a document. Retrieve
the properties of a document or folder. Retrieve the child objects
of a specific folder (metadata).
For information on how to access the APIs, refer APIs for SAP
Project Intelligence Network.
Note The Document Service API is not yet available on the SAP API
Business Hub (https://api.sap.com/ ).
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Document Manage ment
Users can search and filter documents and folders within the folder
they are currently in.
The search and filtering using the Labels, Uploaded Between, and
Document Status attributes display results for the cur rent folder
as well as its child folders.
Note The search is case-sensitive.
The filtering using the File Size and File Type attributes dis
plays results only for the current folder. It doesn't display re
sults for its child folders.
Enhance ment
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Feature Description Type Role
Task Import Users can import tasks from a comma-separated values
(CSV) file into task management. The import functionality reads the
data from the CSV file and displays them together with potential
incorrect or incomplete data in a table. In the table, the task at
tributes can be corrected or edited.
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Feature Description Type Role
New attributes in notification email
The attributes project name and project ID are added to the noti
fication email.
Enhance ment
All users
New project over view page
The project overview page has been relaunched with a new and fresh
layout. The new page offers additional KPI tiles and direct
navigation capabilities.
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Document Manage ment Enhance ments
Users can select multiple documents for mass upload. They can also
drag and drop multiple documents for mass upload. Users can't
rename the documents after they have been up loaded.
Note It isn't possible to upload multiple documents in the
Documents section of the issue details and task details page.
Users can check out a document before editing the docu ment
contents to prevent other users from editing the docu ment. After
the editing is done, users can check in the docu ment after which
other users can edit the document. Docu ment check-in and
check-out improves collaboration in a team by eliminating the
possibility of a document being overwritten.
Note Once you cancel the check-out operation on a docu ment, the
document gets unlocked.
Users can filter documents based on labels.
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Multiple issues and tasks
Users can reference multiple issues and tasks to a single docu
ment.
Enhance ment
All users
Navigate to docu ments within a project
Users can create a tile on the Fiori launchpad to navigate to the
documents of a specific project.
Users can save a variant as a tile on the Fiori launchpad us ing
the Save as Tile function in the Share menu. In the Save as Tile
dialog, users can select the launchpad group in which they want the
tile to appear.
Note For more information, refer Variant Management .
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Assign responsible project partners to project elements
Authorized users can assign responsible project partners to project
elements of project plans on the details page.
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Improved naviga tion and selection behavior for project
plans
Users can open the details page of a project element without se
lecting the project element.
Enhance ment
All users
Consolidated view for project plans
Users can see all project plans they are authorized to in one Gantt
chart.
Enhance ment
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Search and filter for project plans
Users can search and filter all project elements in the consoli
dated view for all project plans and in the individual view for a
project plan.
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Labels and descrip tions for documents
Users can add descriptions to documents in order to define contexts
for documents.
Users can view, create, and modify the labels for documents.
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Usability improve ments
Users can view the document path on the details page. The document
path helps them in identifying the folder in which the document is
saved.
Users can search for projects by project ID.
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New themes Users can choose new themes, for example, a dark theme,
in
their Profile under Settings Appearance on the Fiori
launchpad.
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Feature Description Type Role
Account configura tion, automatic on boarding
Company administrators are able to activate and configure auto
matic user on-boarding for the SAP Cloud Platform subaccount. This
functionality helps to lower the on-boarding effort for newly
invited project users.
Note For existing freemium accounts, the automatic on-boarding
functionality is activated by default. Please verify your set
tings within the Account Management application.
New Company Adminis trator
Assign responsible project partner to project element
Authorized users are able to assign responsible project partners to
project elements of project plans.
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Feature Description Type Role
Order free edition through SAP store
Free SAP Project Intelligence Network edition can be ordered via
SAP Store (SAP Store Hyperlink ) . The former registration page
will be switched off.
New Purchaser
Display tasks/issue list headers even when scrolling
The header row along with the action buttons now remain on top even
when scrolling down a long list of tasks/issues. Enabled within My
Digital Twins applications too.
Enhance ment
All users
Modify LOD and dis cipline
Possible to modify level of detail (LOD) and discipline within the
document details page.
Note To import model documents in the My Digital Twins applica
tion, the documents should have values specified for LOD and
Discipline fields.
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Assign issues to digital twin
You can now assign multiple issues to digital twin objects within
the digital twin object details page.
Note If the issue is already assigned to another digital twin
object, you cannot assign it to the selected digital twin object.
The message Already Assigned displays against the issue.
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Multiple folder/ document move and delete
Possible to move multiple folders and documents in the folder
structure in Document Management. Also delete multiple folders and
documents at one time.
Enhance ment
All users
Manage and create variant for issues
You can filter issues in a list and save as a variant. A variant
can be set as default for a logged in user.
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Feature Description Type Role
User Management application
With this application, it is possible to view and manage all users
who are entitled to access SAP Project Intelligence Network. You
can also manage user roles and invite new users into the ac
count.
New Company Adminis trator
Additional attrib utes in project plan header
The atttributes Source, Last Changed On, and Last Changed By are
displayed in the header section of the project plan.
Enhance ment
All users
Display company logo and user pro file pic
The company logo uploaded to the company profile (My Com pany
Profile) and the user profile picture uploaded to user profile (My
User Profile) are displayed throughout the application for more
clarity.
Enhance ment
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View/Manage task assigned to a docu ment
In the document details page, you can:
View any task assigned to a document Create a task and assign to
selected document Assign existing task to the selected
document
Note Only one task can be assigned to a document.
Enhance ment
All users
Display list of docu ments in a tabular format
The list of documents shown in Document Management applica tion
and document section in issues details page and tasks de tails
page are now visible in a tabular format to improve readabil
ity.
Enhance ment
All users
Display document list headers even when scrolling
The header of the document list user interface along with the ac
tion buttons now remain on top even when scrolling down a long list
of items.
Enhance ment
All users
Document locking status shown in bet ter way
Previously, the locking status of a document was shown in a dedi
cated column in document list pages.
With this release, the locking status is visible along with the
docu ment name only for those documents that are locked with the
in formation about who has locked it.
Enhance ment
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Field Description Type Role
Email notification for due tasks and issues
The system sends an email notification for not com pleted tasks
and issues with maintained due date. The emails are sent, in the
follow ing scenario's:
Three days to one day, before due
on the due date after the due date (over
due)
Note To receive an email noti fication, it is mandatory to enable
the email noti fication setting in the My User Profile
application.
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Expand project ID Length of project ID ex tended from 10 to 40
charac ters.
Enhancement Project Administrator
New layout progress for task additional fields
Header and information sec tion of the task detail view has been
reworked and opti mized. New fields, Percent age complete, Effort
+ Unit of measure, Label, Created by, and Created on added.
Enhancement All users
Unlock documents No two users can modify the same document at the
same time. For example, user (A) tries to modify a document, which
is being edited or new version uploaded by another user (B). The
user A is in formed that the document is locked and cannot be
modi fied when trying to modify the document from the Document
list page. For more information, refer Feature Scope
Description
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Field Description Type Role
Folder move Possible to move folders in the folder structure in
Docu ment Management.
Note The source and des
tination folder should have the contributor permis sion to perform
this task
The ability to move folders from one folder to another is
independent of the permission of docu ments within the
folders.
New users
Enable user to specify LOD and discipline during docu ment
creation
When uploading documents against an issue or task, pos sible to
specify level of detail and discipline.
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Field Description Type Role
Usability enhancements 1. Document section within Task Details and
Issue Details page: 1. Better alignment of
checkboxes 2. Enabled Show More
option to view the listed documents
2. Digital Twin section within Project Details page: 1. Added new
fields,
Type and Location 2. Enabled Show More
to view the listed digital twins
3. Project Partner section within Project Details page: 1. Enabled
Show More
to view the listed project partners
2. Introduced new icons (corrected)
4. Users section within Project Partner details: 1. On click of
phone
numbers and email IDs, device specific calling and emailing
applications are triggered
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Feature Description Type Role
Email notification Once a project partner member is assigned as
responsible to an issue or task, the system sends an email
notification to the as signed person.
Note To receive an email notification, it is mandatory to enable
the email notification setting in the My User Profile
application.
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Feature Description Type Role
Profile picture Within the user settings, My User Profile, users
are able to upload a profile picture.
Note In the upcoming releases, the profile picture will be
displayed within the applications where user information is
displayed.
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Company logo Within the company settings, My Company Profile, the
company administrator can upload the company logo.
Note In the upcoming releases, the company logo will be displayed
within the applications where company information is dis
played.
New Company Adminis trator
Notes In Tasks and Issues, possibe to edit notes. New All
users
Reference docu ment
View issues in which a document is referenced. Choose a docu ment
and click the Details button, to proceed.
Note One document can be referenced only in one issue.
New All users
Usability enhance ments
Edit the status and description of documents from the Docu ment
Management Details page. Previously, you selected the document from
the list and click Edit.
Edit description of selected folder from the Document Man agement
Details page. Previously, you selected the folder from the list and
click Edit.
Rename the folder title using the Rename option within the Actions
dropdown. Previously, you could select the folder from the list and
rename using the Edit option.
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Feature Description Type Role
Introduction of additional digital twin object hierarchies.
Possible to navigate to digital twin using additional hierarchies,
which are:
Component: Hierarchical display of digital twin elements, grouped
by component types. Here, the data is fetched from Visual
Enterprise.
Spatial: Hierarchical display of digital twin elements, grouped by
spatial elements. Here, the data is stored within SAP Project
Intelligence Network. For example, building, part of building,
floor, room, space etc. For details on spatial grouping, refer
Spatial Structure Ele ment
Model Files: Hierarchical display of digital twin elements, grouped
by model files. Here, the data is fetched from Visual
Enterprise.
Additional features in the hierarchy and 3D view to isolate, hide,
and show digital twin objects.
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Feature Description Type Role
Task based detail planning for project elements
For a task-based detail planning, tasks can be created, assigned,
and unassigned to a project element of a project plan.
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Create a new ver sion of an existing document
Ability to create a new version of of an existing document from the
document section in Task or Issue Details page. For more in
formation, refer Feature Scope Description for SAP Project Intelli
gence Network
Required permissions:
on task or issue: View on the document for which a new version is
to be created:
CONTRIBUTOR or ADMINISTRATOR
New All users
Added mapping for project element ID in EPPM integration
content
With content version 1.0.8, the attribute ProjectElement from EPPM
structure will be mapped with the project plan attribute
humanReadableId.
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Feature Description Type Role
Manage multiple project plans
Ability to import and manage multiple project plans from differ
ent project partners within a collaboration project.
New All users
Authorized persons allowed to define viewing, editing, and pro
viding authorization permissions for a project plan.
New All users
Additional attrib utes for project plans
New attributes Owner, Source, and Name are available for project
plans.
Note For already existing project plans, the Owner and Source at
tributes are empty. To get these attributes set, the project plan
must be imported again.
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Manage multiple versions of docu ments within Docu ment
Management page
Possible to:
Create new versions of documents Download and view previous
versions of documents View details of the documents updated
according to differ
ent versions. Details such as the person who updated the document,
date when the file was updated can be viewed.
Note For a particular document, the person with the contribu tor
or administrator permissions can create new ver sions of the
documents.
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Ability to provide document name
Possible to provide a name for the document, which can different
from the file name. The document name is displayed in the Import
Model Files dialog box of My Digital Twin application, in stead of
file name.
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Feature Description Type Role
Identify duplicate is sues while import ing BCF files
While importing a BCF file, it is now possible to check if the
issue is duplicate or not.
The topic GUID within the imported file is used to identify if an
is sue being imported is a duplicate and already available in the
sys tem. Users have the option to skip the import or overwrite,
during importing the BCF file.
Note User must have full control permissions to overwrite the is
sue. On selecting the overwrite option, only the content within the
markup file is overwritten. The markup file is part of the imported
BCF file. All assignments such as the digital twins, documents, and
tasks are not overwritten.
Enhanced All users
View digital twin - Known issue
The initial zoom of loaded digital twin is not correct, sometimes.
As a result, the digital twin is not visible, clearly. You can zoom
out to increase the visibility.
All users
Feature Description Type Role
Assign issues to project elements
Possible to create, assign, and unassign issues to a project ele
ment of a project plan.
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Project Authoriza tion
Permission control within the project Authorization section has
been moved to project settings and project functions.
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Project Authoriza tion
Possible to grant the permissions, create authorization groups and
invite project partner, to individual users or user groups.
Enhanced Project Administra tor
Move documents Ability to move a document from one folder to
another based on available permissions. The permissions can be
checked in the Sharing Details section of the document details
page. The re quired permissions are:
Source folder: Contributor Target folder: Contributor Document:
Contributor
New All users
Reference docu ments to Issues or Tasks
Ability to reference one or more documents to an issue or task. In
this scenario, the Edit permission is required. For more informa
tion, refer Feature Scope Description for SAP Project Intelligence
Network.
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Support for .ifcZIP file format in digital twin application
Ability to import .ifcZIP files in My Digital Twin application.
This reduces the time taken to upload the file into document
manage ment and import it to digital twin in comparison to ifc
file up loaded or imported.
Note Only ifc files zipped within the ifcZIP is supported. For more
information, refer https://technical.buildingsmart.org/
standards/ifc/ifc-formats/
Enhanced All users
Feature Description Type Role
Reference docu ment
Possible to reference an existing document within a project for an
issue or task. Use the Add button within the Document sections, to
reference.
Note You cannot reference the same document to more than one issue
or task.
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Project Plan Visualization of project plan upgraded with new user
interface control. It is now possible to display project elements
such as Gantt, table, or a combination of both. The color schema is
en hanced.
Enhanced All users
User and company profile visibility
A checkbox within the My Company Profile and My User Profile
applications enable controlling the visibility of user and company
profile basic details to other company members. For more infor
mation, refer Visibility for Invitations.
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Feature Description Type Role
Workflow Integration Possible to start workflows defined in SAP
Cloud plat form workflow from the SAP Project Intelligence Network
task. For more information, refer Integration of SAP Project
Intelligence Network with SAP Workflow on Cloud Foundry and SAP
Cloud Plat form Workflow.
New All users
Manage Issues/Tasks Ability to upload documents related to an issue
or task in a user specified folder.
New All users
Authorization Management for Issues/Tasks
Possible for issue or task cre ator to control viewing, proc
essing, and administration permissions for an issue or task.
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Security patches applied Enhanced All users
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Manage Issues You can import multiple is sues into a project in
BCF for mat, at once.
Note The file size should
not exceed 50 MB and should be of type .bcf.
Only bcf.2.1 version files are supported. For information, re fer
https:// github.com/buil dingSMART/BCF- XML/tree/
release_2_1/Docu mentation
Within the imported bcf file, the markup.bcf is supported
Within the markup file, for a particular topic, the following
metadata are supported: TopicTitle, Priority, CreationDate,
CreationAuthor, Modi fiedDate, ModifiedAu thor, DueDate, Assign
edTo, Description, Topic Status, and TopicType.
Note The metadata - Cre ationAuthor, Modi fiedAuthor, and As
signedTo are must be in email ID for mat. The supported values for
other metadata are de fined within the ex
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What's New in 1909 Release
Feature Description Type Role
Manage Issues Export multiple issues of a project, in BCF format,
at once
Export information of digital twin objects that are assigned to an
issue in BCF format. The infor mation and image is available in
the files, viewpoint.bcfv and snap shot.png, respectively.
Note The files, view point.bcfv and snap shot.png are part of the
exported BCF files
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Possible to identify an issue within a project by sequential
numbering.
New All users
Manage company details With the Edit option, com pany
administrators can up date/change details of own company.
Enhanced Company Administrator
Enhanced All users
Business partner registration New business partner can register
themselves for a free of charge SAP Project Intelli gence Network
account.
New Company Administrator
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Invite new business partners Possible to invite new busi ness
partners that are not yet onboarded to SAP Project In telligence
Network, to the project.
New Project Administrator
Feature Description Type Role
New applications available with this release.
Business partners are now managed in new repository. Authorized
users can view and edit details of users and companies
New All users
Delete Project With the Delete option, project administrators are
authorized to delete projects with the status To be Deleted.
Note You cannot recover de leted projects
New Project Administrator
Authorization for Project Functions
With this release, project ad ministrators can control exe cution
permissions to create digital twin, finance views, is sues,
project plans, and tasks.
New Project Administrator
New All users
Security patches are applied Enhanced All users
Manage Documents You can view certain docu ments within the
browser (this is based on the sup ported browser).
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Feature Description Type Role
Manage Issues You can export selected is sues of a project in BCF
for mat.
Within the exported bcf file, the markup.bcf and bcf.version files
are sup ported
Within the markup.bcf file, for a particular topic, the following
met adata are supported: Guid, TopicStatus, Title, Priority,
CreationDate, CreationAuthor, Modi fiedDate, ModifiedAu thor,
DueDate, Assign edTo, and Description.
New All users
Feature Description Type Role
New All users
Fiori Launch Pad Version New fiori launch pad version for the
application is enabled. Because of this, the maually configured
launch pad tiles and view variants had to be removed. You must
configure them manually in the new launch pad.
Enhanced All users
Enhanced All users
Security patches are applied. Enhanced All users
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Feature Description Type Role
Document Management The search feature in the 'Manage Documents' UI
is enhanced to search for nested files and folders.
Enhanced All users
Digital Twin New view modes like xRay, cross section within the 3D
visualization are enabled.
Enhanced All users
Partner Invitation The process of inviting a project partner for
the 2nd company role is fully auto mated. For example, inviting an
additional department or subsidiary to the project.
Enhanced Collaboration owner
Performance The performance while load ing digital twin object
proper ties is improved.
Enhanced All users
Security patches are applied. Enhanced All users
What's New in 1904 Release
Feature Description Type Role
3D model viewer You can now view models from different
prespectives.
New All users
Lean Task Board With the lean task board you can do a weekly task
plan ning
New All Users
Performance The 3D model viewer loads the models faster. The
rotation of the model is much smoother now.
Improved performance during project creation.
Enhanced All users
Security patches are applied. Enhanced All users
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What's New in 1903 Release
Feature Description Type Role
Group Management You can display, create, edit and delete
authorization groups. Authorization groups can be used to manage
ac cess to documents.
New All users
Integration with SAP ERP systems
You can now import project plans from SAP ERP backend
systems.
New All users
Withdrawing Project Invita tions
Invitations sent to the com pany/user can be withdrawn before it
is accepted.
New All users
Simplified User Onboarding Self registration of users is now
possible. So the manual user configuration is not re quired
anymore before an in vitation is sent to the user.
Enhanced All users
Performance The performance of the SAP Project Intelligence Network
application is improved.
Enhanced --
Feature Description Type Role
Digital Twin Visualization Memory allocation for digital twin
visualization is reduced which allows digital twin visu alization
(for IFC files upto 35MB) on workstations with lower memory
configuration.
Enhanced All users
Performance The performance of the SAP Project Intelligence Network
application is improved.
Enhanced --
Security Patches and Correc tion
Security patches are applied. Enhanced --
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Feature Description Type Role
Automatic Folder Creation It is now possible to auto mate creation
of document folder structure for an exist ing or a new project.
This functionality can only be exe cuted by the SAP Develop ment
Operations team.
New SAP Development Opera tions
Performance The performance of the SAP Project Intelligence Network
application is improved.
Enhanced --
User Authentication User authentication for part ner development
is im proved.
Enhanced All users
Security Patches and Correc tion
Security patches are applied. Enhanced --
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