Enhancement of Info Objects 

Use

In enhancements you can use SAP information objects or information objects of other basic standard contexts by:

·        linking to SAP information objects or information objects of other basic standard contexts

You can link to or include structures.

·        creating enhancements to information objects and modifying these enhancements to meet your requirements

The following diagram shows how you can use SAP structures.

To reuse standard SAP structures unchanged in your enhancement, either link to it (I.a) or include it (I.b). If a subsequent enhancement release is based on a more recent SAP release, this kind of reuse automatically uses the most recent SAP structure version.

If you only want to use a SAP structure in your enhancements in modified form, you must first create an enhancement version of the structure. This can then be modified and if necessary referenced with a link (II.a) or an include (II.b).

Enhancing SAP objects has the following advantages compared to creating information objects:

·        It saves the effort required to create the structure and topics. This is particularly significant when only minor modifications should be made to the standard system.

·        Standard help links remain valid. These links can thus be used unchanged in an enhancement.

·        Links to the info objects remain valid and the enhancement object now appears in the enhancement context in all places that link to the SAP object on which it is based.

Activities

You link enhancement objects to SAP objects with Hyperlinks (see Maintaining Hyperlinks).

You link enhancement structures to SAP objects by putting them in the structure (see Putting Info Objects in a Structure).

You link enhancement structures to SAP structures by putting them in the structure as a link or an include (see Putting Info Objects in a Structure).

You create and modify enhancement versions of SAP objects.

The next time the SAP contents are updated, you can check which SAP information objects were changed using the structure comparison and with the modification list.