Confirmation via Intranet (PS-CON) 

Use

Projects are seldom self-contained within the four walls of your company; often you have your own employees or subcontractors working at customer or remote locations. How do you monitor these activities and how can you stay up-to-date on their progress?

SAP’s Intranet solution provides you with the answer to these questions by allowing your employees or authorized third parties to confirm project data using the Intranet.  The people performing the activity want to make reports quickly and easily, while the project manager is interested in staying on top of the activities in his project.  The more quicker confirmations are made, the sooner the project manager can see if there are problems requiring action.

Confirmations of network activities in the SAP system provide the basis for actual dates and costs as well as for analysis using the project information system.

The confirmations that you make in the Intranet are processed in the same manner as the confirmations you make in the SAP system. For more information, refer to Confirmation Directly in the Project System .

Type of Internet Application Component

Intranet

Advantages for Project Managers

·        You can design the Intranet screen layout to meet your needs without modifying the SAP system

·        You can confirm individual activities or a group of activities from different networks

·        You receive he confirmation online, that is, right after it has been made

·        You can identify and react to problems quickly

Advantages for Project Staff

·        You can make confirmations at any time of the day or night, anywhere in the world (provided the SAP system is available)

·        You can enter the data quickly and easily

·        You can be new to the SAP system and still confirm network activities

·        You can make confirmations directly in the Intranet without having to call or send a fax

Prerequisites

Authorizations/Security

The people who confirm project data using the Intranet must have a user in the SAP system with the following authorizations:

Authorization	Description
C_AFKO_AWK	CIM: Plant for order type of the order
C_AFKO_DIS	Network: MRPG (plant) and transaction type
C_AFRU_APL	Confirmation: Authorization for actual work center
C_MLST_BGR	PS: Milestones (authorization group)
C_PROJ_TCD	PS: Transaction-specific authorizations in Project System
M_MSEG_BWA	Goods movements: Movement types
M_MSEG_WWA	Goods movements: Plant
PLOG	PD: Personnel planning and development
P_ABAP	HR: Reporting
P_ORIGIN	HR: Master data
P_ORGXX	HR: Master data - extended check
P_PCLX	HR: Cluster
S_TCODE	Auth. check against transaction code at transaction start

Standard Settings and Defaults

When you make a confirmation in the Intranet, the SAP system automatically provides you with:

Standard settings from the confirmation parameters in Customizing, such as whether or not:

·        Dates are proposed

·        Work is proposed

Default values from the activity, such as:

·        Activity type

·        Plant

Features

Differences to the Transaction in the SAP System

The following functions which you can perform in the confirmation transaction in the SAP system are not available in the Intranet solution:

·        Setting a user status

·        Entering a long text

·        Displaying an error log for errors that occurred during cost calculation

 

In the transaction in the SAP system, you can record withdrawals of material components, however, in the Intranet transaction, only backflushing is allowed.

Modification Options

In addition to being able to change the layout of the Intranet screen, you can also make modifications to the SAP development objects.

 

Every change to a SAP development object used in an Intranet application is considered a modification.

Therefore, you should never change the development objects in the standard version.

Service Name

The service name of this Internet Application Component is CNW1. You can find all the relevant data under this service name in the SAP@Web Studio.

SAP Development Objects

In the standard system, the Internet application component provides you with the most important fields in a generic layout. The SAP system exchanges data with the Intranet using the dictionary structure WWW_AFRUD and transaction CNW1.

When you create your own transaction based on the standard application, you can change the HTML file and select different fields from the dictionary structure to be displayed on the screen.

 

SAP Development Objects for PS Confirmations:
Transaction:	CNW1
Program:	SAPMCNW1
Dictionary structure:	WWW_AFRUD