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Procedure documentation Inserting New Structures  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You can create a structure and insert it as a link or include.

Prerequisites

You are in the Edit Structure screen.

Procedure

To insert a new structure in the structure:

  1. Place the cursor where the new structure should be inserted.
  2. Choose Info Object ® Insert ® At Same Level or As Subnode.
  3. The Insert Info Object dialog box appears.

  4. Choose Create New Info Object.
  5. The Info Object Class dialog box appears:

  6. Choose an info object class and copy it.
  7. The Create Structure dialog box appears.

  8. Enter the required data and choose Enter.
  9. Note

    When creating structures, you can define whether it is a book structure or a substructure in the Usage Type field. You can find the possible values in the value help.

    If the structure to be created is a substructure (e.g. structure includes), you do not have to make an entry in this field.

    The maintenance screen for the root content object of the structure appears.

    Note

    Component is entered as the content type since (according to the information design) it is the content type assigned to the first content object of a structure.

    If you do not want to use this content type, assign the content object a different content type.

  10. Enter the required data.
  11. Save your entries and return.
  12. The Structure: <Technical name of the structure> dialog box appears .

  13. Define whether the structure should be inserted as an include or a link.

Structure Include

Use a structure include if

Example

You divided a large structure into several smaller structures so that you can work independently of the others in your team.

Include these smaller structures in the main structure.

Example

Structures containing general content objects.

Structure link

Use a structure link to provide users with information from another related main structure.

  1. Save the structure.

Result

The structure is created with a content object and inserted in the structure as a new node.